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Is God or Man Sovereign? - Gerstner and Sproul debate.

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Sproul is arguing a contrary position to Gerstner but it isn't what he actually believes. He's taking a contrary position so they can explore the question.

He explains at the start of the first debate (see clip below from about 1 min 45 secs)

 
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Why does this say, "mock" debate?
They are faking a debate because they are both Reformed (Gerstner is the mentor and Sproul is the mentee) and they want to create a stram man and slay it. And they are probably doing this because they could not find anyone would argue for the points of view that they want to swat down.
 
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They are faking a debate because they are both Reformed (Gerstner is the mentor and Sproul is the mentee) and they want to create a stram man and slay it. And they are probably doing this because they could not find anyone would argue for the points of view that they want to swat down.
To be honest, I have seen such debates that ran long because of contention and noisy fallacies, and so on, instead of each party getting to the point. What they are doing is obviously for teaching purposes. It was fun, but I haven't had the time to see both 'episodes'.
 
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