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Totally Depraved Persevering Saints discussing their Unconditional Election and Limited Atonement, while recieving Irresistable Grace.
It's French social theory wedded with Calvinist theology: Everyone is inextricably bound up in self - perpetuating systems of sinful behavior; when everyone is
totally depraved, no one is; God, in the end, becomes a celestial umpire, naming this one «just» and that one «damned» according to arbitrary fiat.
While Genesis 6:5 does speak about a specific period of time (before the Flood), but the conclusion of that verse is that Man is totally wicked / depraved and it shows Man's true sinful nature.Me personally, I don't use Genesis 6:5 to prove that man is
totally depraved when Paul teaches that in Ephesians and Romans.Scripture teaches that man is DEAD, Dead is his Sin, and it's God who makes one ALIVE.The simplest example is Lazarus dead in the Tomb when Jesus called him forth.Lazarus came forth.Could of Lazarus resisted?
That too is
TOTALLY Depraved.
These verses then, and especially Isaiah 64:6, are not a blanket condemnation of all people around the world as being
totally depraved, but are rather a condemnation of religious behavior that appears righteous, but is only outward and which tries to manipulate God.
If people are
totally depraved, dead in sin, and have no free will to believe in Jesus for eternal life, then God must give them the faith so that they can believe.
To affirm that [man] is a free moral agent is to deny that he is
totally depraved (Pink, Sovereignty of God, 138).
None of these categories above are
totally depraved.
As my link points out, it's not because Satan is in control of the world that we are
totally depraved and unable to get to God on our own.
If I look to myself, I am only
totally depraved at heart.
Job was not
totally depraved, and inclined to do evil continually.
At no point is the puzzle
totally depraved.
How can a man who was born as a DIRTY LITTLE SINNER and are
totally depraved, and only incline do to do evil, have a good an honest heart?
Elijah was not
totally depraved.
How would it be possible for Cornelius to act in this manner if he was born a DIRTY LITTLE SINNER; inclined only to do evil, and was
totally depraved?
When Calvinists speak of man as begin
totally depraved, they mean that man's nature is corrupt, perverse, and sinful throughout (Steele & Thomas, Five Points of Calvinism, 18).
Totally depraved little kids.
So if people are
totally depraved (see the link list below) so that they can not even believe in Jesus for eternal life or respond positively to God in any way, then God must unilaterally give eternal life to certain people.
If men are
totally depraved and if some are still saved, then it is obvious that the reason some are saved and some are lost rests entirely with God.
Not exact matches
As I see it, judging humanity as being
totally morally
depraved comes from not differentiating mind from spirit.
Men love women who can embody both sides of this conflict, who can act
totally proper in public and completely
depraved in private.
Jordana is also living proof that guys barely notice what a girl looks like, per se; she has eczema, isn't especially pretty and is built like a small construction vehicle, but her self - presentation as an unquenchable siren
totally works on the
depraved young lads of Swansea.