Sentences with phrase «doctrine of total depravity»

The Calvinistic doctrine of Total Depravity does not teach that each of us goes astray or turns away, but rather that we are born that way, that before we can even make a choice for good or evil, we are predisposed to only choose the evil.

It is this view of sin that lies at the base of the Reformation doctrine of total depravity.

Romans 8:7 - 8 is often used to defend the Calvinistic doctrines of Total Depravity and total inability.

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.

Most of these Christians do not believe in the doctrine of total depravity and that there is «good» in people when infact the bible is clear otherwise.

It follows logically from the doctrine of Total Depravity (Seaton, Calvinism, 11).

But the real linchpin in Calvinism is their doctrine of total depravity, which actually means «total inability.»

Until then, what do you think about the doctrine of Total Depravity as expressed above?

On the surface, the doctrine of Total Depravity seems acceptable.

Titus 1:15 is sometimes referenced as further proof for the doctrine of Total Depravity and its twin, total inability.

In a scene that backs up the doctrine of total depravity, Noah says there is evil in his wife and his sons, even though they will be on the ark.

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.»

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.

That's because Piper and many in the fundamentalist neo-Reformed movement are working off of a perversion of the doctrine of total depravity that not only teaches that human beings are depraved — that is, that our humanity is marred by sin — but that this depravity renders the world's men, women, and children into valueless objects of god's wrath, worthy of nothing more than eternal torture, pain, violence, and abuse.

Sometimes verses like Psalm 143:2 are referenced by Calvinists to defend their doctrine of Total Depravity.

In the records of what Jesus said there is no doctrine of total depravity, but neither is there a sentimental assumption that if a person is well nurtured and his intentions are good, his acts will be good enough.

Yesterday we briefly looked at the Calvinistic understanding of Genesis 6:5 and Genesis 8:21, and how they use these verses to defend the doctrine of Total Depravity.

The sharpness of Paul's condemnation of those who try to save themselves by the works of the law, and the vividness of his description of «this body of death» before the power of sin is broken by Christ, have traditionally been made to bear the weight of a doctrine of total depravity in the natural man.

It is Calvin who taught the doctrine of Total Depravity, not Luther.

Calvinists often use Psalm 51:5 to defend their doctrine of Total Depravity.

There is no doctrine of Total Depravity or total inability here.

The mixture of motives in all people, incidentally, refutes the doctrines both of total depravity and of saintliness.