Your total depravity doctrine, as much as you seem to think you don’t adhere to it, is false and has been debunked with scripture.
Babies aren’t sinners straightaway upon birth.
Babies aren’t sinners straightaway upon birth.
We are born alienated from God.
Adam and Eve opened the doorway which allowed sin into the world.
Sinful nature is not inherited but rather what we see in the world is a lack of holiness.
Nuance is important and people typically repeat what they have been told.
We can thank Augustine for these horrible doctrines of total depravity, original sin/sin nature, the elect/select, natural man no ability to choose, etc., etc.,
And I also agree, salvation is completed for everyone, but each individual person needs to appropriate it and make it their own.
I think that if you can can come to a point of eternal security you will be in the correct understanding of the plan of salvation because you are absolutely correct Jesus is on the higher ground.
Jesus is greater.
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