Is the Calvinistic doctrine of total depravity biblical? Does the Bible teach that humanity is totally depravity? Is total inability a more accurate description than total depravity?
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Total depravity – is it biblical? – https://www.gotquestions.org/total-depravity.html
What is Calvinism and is it biblical? – https://www.gotquestions.org/calvinism.html
What is a Calvinist? – https://www.gotquestions.org/Calvinist.html
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Hello from Georgia…usa… God created sentient beings, Celestial and flesh. These beings are imperfect. God shared with us in Job 4:18,…"Behold, He put no trust in His servants; and His angles He charged with folly." That is why God keeps Christs return secret. As for sin, sin is learned and not a product of creation in the womb. Was Jesus guilty of sin at birth, or did Mary raise Him in a Godly manner until He grasp the sinful nature of our environment? "By the time this child is old enough to choose what is right and reject what is wrong, he will be eating yogurt and honey"…Isaiah 7:15…Thank you, I enjoyed that.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And there upon the cross, Jesus Christ, in giving His life unto the death, shedding His blood to make the only atonement for our sins, has purged the guilt of sin from us, and He has clothed us with His perfect righteousness. We now are presented before the throne of grace, and we receive full and perfect acceptance with God.
If we take away the doctrine of total depravity in all of its fullness, we diminish the glory of the cross. But when we see the darkness of sin and the depravity of the human soul, we can hear the gospel of Jesus Christ: that He came into this world to save sinners. And we rejoice that God would have grace and mercy on hell-bound sinners like us and praise Him for His grace.
The theology of the Doctrines of Grace are controversial in fallen man, they are clear in the revealed word of God.
Great series on this. If you look at human history this has been the struggle , to not change Gods revealed character. "has God really said?"
If total depravity/inability is truth how is it possible for mankind to do anything of value? It’s not truth.
At the 15:40 mark did you say that a 5 point Calvinist is a hyper-Calvinist?
Thank all three of you. Maranatha…
AHMEIN
We need to understand that God still gives good and perfect gifts (James 1:17)
and common grace to people everywhere.
That's why unbelievers are capable of doing beautiful things
even though their motives may be corrupt and not God-centered:
📕 Matthew 5:45
". . . He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous."
Like the video said, we are not good, not even one:
📕 Romans 3:10
as it is written, "There is none righteous, not even one;"
We are enslaved and blinded by our love of sin until Christ sets us free:
📕 John 8:34
"Jesus answered them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.'"
In our natural state, we do not seek God salvifically:
📕 Rom. 3:11
"there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God."
Nor can we understand Him:
📕 1 Cor. 2:14
"But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised."
Our hearts are regenerated only when He implants new ones in us and gives us new affections:
📕 Ezekiel 36:26
"Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh."
He needs to perform circumcision on our hearts:
📕 Deuteronomy 30:6
"Moreover the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live."
📕 Col. 2:11
"and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ;"
We were spiritually dead in our sins:
📕 Eph. 2:1
"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins,"
In the teaching of prevenient grace, we still have some cause to boast in our own righteousness. Electing grace gives all the credit to God.
Amen GQ 🙂🙏
For those who are interested in Provisionism, here is our article: https://www.gotquestions.org/Provisionism-provisionist.html
You should know the work god has done in you because you should recognise your spiritual Hearts, your sinful nature and the passions of the flesh and how these things are circumcised from you, how can a man be born of light and not recognise the light he is born of, how then can he say God is doing a work in me and yet see it not, I recognise the word god has done in me because I recognise my spiritual position of the things that used to be in my heart which are now circumcised from my heart, that one is transformed into the image of the Christ that the sinful nature and the passions of the flesh are circumcised, as it is written, to be transformed into the image of the Christ perfect man from glory to Glory until we are fully perfected, many of you believe what is written and yet live in Blind Faith, it is written in Blind Faith lives every kind of evil, John Piper is an excellent example of this, he is a 60 something year old man and tells me he is full of the spirit of an adolescent child, so no work has been done in this man, please tell me how God has circumcised your heart and how he is filling you with the Holy Spirit as it is written, to be full of the Holy Spirit to be full of the glory of god,
"One who is forgiven much loves much." It seems to me worth the effort to discover how bad off I was so my joy in the Lord's salvation will be greater. The Apostle Paul certainly seems to be last in self-esteem but first in joy, which the world say cannot happen.
Calvinism is clearly unbiblical.
The early church fathers who were taught directly by the apostles (who wrote the Bible) never believed that God chose some before birth and rejected others before birth. This doctrine was introduced into the church hundreds of years later by a Gnostic monk called Augustine.
The problem with the whole idea of total moral inability, Is that it contradicts what the author of Romans says later. In chapter ten, Paul gives the solution: Faith comes by hearing, hearing the word of God. Yes, left to ourselves we would never seek God. The scripture says that God came to seek and say that which was lost. And he gave His all powerful word, which is able to save to the uttermost.
John 6.44. No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. God has to do a work to bring them to belief.