COMMON SENSE APPROACH
We know that man is totally depraved because of the human heart that is deceitful and desperately wicked. We can see that in ourselves and in others, therefore we can assign total depravity to the human race. We see that children are born and soon after are speaking lies and are easily led astray. That is the simple approached and the only ones that would balk at that are those that believe in human good over and against divine good. There is none that are born with divine good and those that would boast of human good, their best condition is considered vanity and filthy rags before a holy God but not before those that live in human good and believe that man is intrinsically good and somehow can be corrupted after the fact by their surroundings and the influence of human evil.
Depravity means no soundness and no ability to do a single thing mentally, emotionally, volitionally, righteously or morally, no matter what the appearance, that would be acceptable to God in any way, shape, form or conformity, inwardly or outwardly, and that also goes for the inverse or those things that are omitted and never committed. In other words, if a man were able to abstain from every form of lust and fleshly desire mentally, emotionally and from the appetites of his body and was able to accomplish this perfectly in his own strength, it would be disapproved by God and completely unacceptable because of the source of that strength and ability that accomplished such a discipline. It would be commendable but not acceptable as a means to justify the constitutional makeup and substance of a man's being before the holiness, righteousness, purity and the uncreated life of his Creator.
Such a totally depraved and sinful nature have we all inherited from conception through our progenitor Adam, with no if, ands or buts about it. It can not be denied, refuted, intellectualized, rationalized away or forgotten through ignorance because it abides in every living man and woman that has breath and is confirmed by those that have met up with the grave through death.
We know that man is totally depraved because of the human heart that is deceitful and desperately wicked. We can see that in ourselves and in others, therefore we can assign total depravity to the human race. We see that children are born and soon after are speaking lies and are easily led astray. That is the simple approached and the only ones that would balk at that are those that believe in human good over and against divine good. There is none that are born with divine good and those that would boast of human good, their best condition is considered vanity and filthy rags before a holy God but not before those that live in human good and believe that man is intrinsically good and somehow can be corrupted after the fact by their surroundings and the influence of human evil.
Depravity means no soundness and no ability to do a single thing mentally, emotionally, volitionally, righteously or morally, no matter what the appearance, that would be acceptable to God in any way, shape, form or conformity, inwardly or outwardly, and that also goes for the inverse or those things that are omitted and never committed. In other words, if a man were able to abstain from every form of lust and fleshly desire mentally, emotionally and from the appetites of his body and was able to accomplish this perfectly in his own strength, it would be disapproved by God and completely unacceptable because of the source of that strength and ability that accomplished such a discipline. It would be commendable but not acceptable as a means to justify the constitutional makeup and substance of a man's being before the holiness, righteousness, purity and the uncreated life of his Creator.
Such a totally depraved and sinful nature have we all inherited from conception through our progenitor Adam, with no if, ands or buts about it. It can not be denied, refuted, intellectualized, rationalized away or forgotten through ignorance because it abides in every living man and woman that has breath and is confirmed by those that have met up with the grave through death.