Sentences with phrase «depravity as»

Widely regarded as an organization dedicated to protecting, rather than harming, animals as is really the case, PETA provides Newkirk not only the perfect cover for her nefarious agenda, but, paradoxically, the perfect place to recruit others to participate in her depravity as well.

As simple retro - horror, Planet Terror attains the same delicious depravity as the director's Mariachi films — respecting the tenets of the genre while placing its tongue just enough in its cheek to let us laugh at the absurdity.

James Newton Howard's excellent score plays like the theme music inside the character's head, aggrandising personal depravity as «heroism» in Bloom's strained, piercing eyes while the audience watches in revulsion.

Do they teach Total Depravity as Calvinists claim?

That is, universal sinfulness is a biblical idea, but the way Calvinists use this idea to form other doctrines causes me to reject total depravity as Calvinists understand and define it.

I am not opposed to total depravity as much as I am the ramifications of this doctrine.

Cultivating self - awareness is placing ourselves in God's presence with the desire to accept knowledge about ourselves on both sides of the spectrum — where we've not been clear the depth of our depravity as well as the strength of our abilities.

One of the central ramifications to the Calvinistic understanding of Total Depravity as total inability is the idea that people are not even able to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

It's okay to be honest with the depths of our depravity as we confess our sins to God.

In other words, although Calvinists sometimes use Titus 1:15 to defend their doctrine of Total Depravity, this verse might actually condemn theologies that include teachings like Total Depravity as being «unchristian.»

Maybe the dispute is the starting point: I see total depravity as more an endpoint.

Not exact matches

For me as a Calvinist, that suggests that rather than spending a lot of time defending the doctrine of total depravity or of election I would do best to share my deeply felt sense of my own unworthiness, and to point people to the way in which I have experienced God's gracious workings in my life.

A retired Methodist minister has been jailed for using hypnosis to sexually abuse boys as a way to «satisfy his own depravity».

Religious folk often act as if the world would be filled with depravity if religion didn't exist, but the most important moral truths are universal — that's why they are found in the teachings of classical antiquity, Confucianism, Buddhism, etc..

Put too briefly, total depravity means that, as a consequence of original sin, there is absolutely nothing we are capable of doing in order to be saved.

For me, Total Depravity was one of the last points to fall (for the reasons you state), but as you say, it is the linchpin which holds the system together.

If, as the Scriptures and experience tell us, all men are by nature in a state of guilt and depravity from which they are wholly unable to deliver themselves and have no claim whatever on God for deliverance, it follows that if any are saved God must choose out those who shall be the objects of His grace (Boettner, Predestination, 95).

Thankfully, Calvinists recognize this as well and so are careful to clarify that the teaching on Total Depravity is not the same thing as «absolute depravity,» and that in general, humanity is not without sDepravity is not the same thing as «absolute depravity,» and that in general, humanity is not without sdepravity,» and that in general, humanity is not without some good.

I've always of the opinion that God gave the 10 commandments as part of his salvation plan to reduce fuzziness in man's thinking; no more ambiguity, no more false pretenses, bring the most self - righteous to acknowledge their depravity to prepare them for the coming of the Savior.

Third and perhaps most surprising, Jones subscribes to Calvin's account of the human condition as one of total depravity.

It is not an overstatement to say, as does R. C. Sproul, that all five points of Calvinism stand or fall on the basis of Total Depravity.

They say instead that Total Depravity means that mankind is as bad off as man can be (Spencer, TULIP, 32).

As a result, I will be spending many posts discussing Total Depravity and related concepts.

I felt a compete derailing of my self and depravity offered as the will of God.

Although I am very far from subscribing to the doctrine of the total depravity of man, it does seem to me to have been proved within my own lifetime that the problem of human evil is not much affected by better education, better housing, higher wages, holidays with pay, and the National Health Service — desirable as all these things may be for other good reasons.

The tone of the article was one of whimsical despair at the unalterable depravity of «Mr. Bones» who has willfully spent some 18 of the past 20 years as a guest of the city.

In Calvinism, total depravity applies to children as well as adults, and Jonathan Edwards said some very hateful things about children.

I see God as wanting to help us grow, not browbeat us for our «depravity».

First, Reformed protestantism — which possesses the theology of «Total Depravity» — DOES N'T say that human beings are as evil as they could be, but rather just that they are evil in all their attributes, so that no aspect of the human condition is left untouched.

Human nature is not subjected to corruption and depravity through the fall of Adam, as if Adam's fall has made humankind a mass of sinners.

Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that «homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.»

Nurtured toward sunny faith in human disposition, under God, they confronted the revived emphasis on original sin, total depravity and the human condition as diminishing the grandeur of the human as God's creation.

We discussed this text earlier in a post about Total Depravity, but a few additional comments are appropriate here as well.

Calvinists sometimes quote from Romans 7 as a text which teaches Total Depravity and total inability, for Paul seems to describe a lack of ability to do anything good (Romans 7:15, 19, 24), and refers to being captive and enslaved to sin (Romans 7:14, 23).

Canaanite worship of the forces of life meant public immorality as a sacred rite and commonly of a disgusting depravity.

Thus, he could use it as an example of pagan depravity (Romans 1:26 - 27) or list it as one among many different sins (1 Corinthians 6:9 - 10 and 1 Timothy 1:10), without needing to give any further explanation.

At this stage of awakening and self - reproach the self is Separated from its old depravity and wickedness, and as it s awakened it takes the road of obedience and piety.

This is all quite sweet, of course, but it does totally obfuscate one essential part of the Deluge account, namely, that God is not willing to tolerate human depravity indefinitely and that human evil will bring destruction upon nature and upon innocent bystanders as well as on the evildoers themselves — a message that might seem particularly appropriate in an age of terrorism and environmental pollution.»

If you did know the most basic thing you would not contrast Calvin's depravity with the saint / sinner paradigm, as we just discussed.

It might be more appropriate to explain «total depravity» as a way of describing the fact that every part of our lives is touched by sin, rather than implying that «total depravity» means we are totally evil people.

While King David and Paul and just about every biblical writer speaks extensively about the profound effects of sin on our lives, there's not as much Scriptural support as you might think for the notion of «total depravity» as is often explained by Christians.

Instead, pedophiles see and use the priesthood as a means to gain access to children to satisfy their depravity.

Perhaps as a result of Augustine's emphasis on depravity, we have learned to live with the notion that, because of our sin, human beings are disgusting and despicable to God, that we are rotten to the core.

As stated in earlier posts, the idea that regeneration precedes faith is the necessary result of the logic of Total Depravity.

Instead, man's will, as the result of inherited depravity, is in bondage to his sinful nature (Steele & Thomas, Five Points of Calvinism, 19).

The religions themselves, even the most elevated ones, led women - and naturally men as well - into great depravity.

Total Depravity means that you and I can not possibly read the Bible as a book published for our edification from God... Well if we cant then what made Calvin able?

It just seems to me that looking at this in a less than very serious light trivializes the seriousness of what's going on as the world slips deeper into depravity.

«Masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action,» the church said in a statement Monday that characterized «homosexual acts» as «acts of grave depravity.»

In light of the underground community of abuse and depravity that exists in the priesthood, I see this condemnation as little more than the excessive whinings of the proverbial kid caught with his own hand in the cookie jar.