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Wow! What a testimony. Similar to mine. I, too, cried out to God and prayed this "great sinner's prayer": God...IF you're there...if you hear me.... Well, he was merciful and he did hear me and about a year or so after I prayed that pathetic, anemic prayer, God put a pastor in my life who...

And just ponder and meditate on Adam's one sin that ruined that "poisoned" the entire human race and this planet as well! ONE sin! A LITTLE BIT OF LEAVEN LEAVENS THE WHOLE LOAF!

Total Depravity, Part 3 Since there is no spiritual soundness in anyone who is in Adam, since no one but God alone is Good because all the unregenerate are darkness itself and in fact love the darkness because their deeds are evil, which is why they naturally have no desire to come to the Light...

This morning I didn't go to worship service at my church because I'm not feeling well, so I listened to an excellent sermon by pastor C.J. Mahaney of the Sovereign Grace Church in Louisville. (A brother years ago turned me to this church.) And WOW! What a joyous, uplifting, edifying, assuring...

Total Depravity, Part II Before taking up the topic of "leaven", I would be remiss in not reminding everyone of a couple of companion verses that strongly support Mk 10:18. Paul, for one, tells us that he knew that "nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature". And he explains how...

Mr. Thompson, sir, see my 259 written on 10/04 in the "God's will v. Man's will" thread regarding your low view of Job.

Yes, I have. I cited or quoted several passages throughout Job when I intially dealt with this topic several weeks ago. When I find time, I will search my files and give you the thread and the post number(s). All you're doing is projecting your own dishonest practices unto me.

Total Depravity Mark 10:18-22 18 And Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone . 19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.'" 20 And he said to...

Nope, I showed earlier (weeks ago) that Job waxed self-righteous and in his self-righteousness (sin), he uttered things that he did not understand. He actually wanted to justify himself before his Holy and Righteous Creator. Job clearly felt that he didn't deserve his afflictions, which he...

Mr. Genez and I recently had some brief exchanges regarding the heart of man. At one point, he commented that "the heart is part of the mind", which is actually backwards of the biblical reality. The mind, along with the other three faculties, are situated in the heart. Therefore, the mind is...

And how do you reconcile that with: Job 42:7 7 After the LORD had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has. NIV Oh...I know...you just don't. You ignore the...

You added selective passages and none of the passages were the one I used to support my argument. You basically condemned Job as being an unreliable source of truth -- something God himself did not do. And I did not quote verses from Jeremiah or any other book out of context -- unless you...

Which means that most believe they are not helpless and in a hopeless, and that there is something good in them. God help such people who call evil good and good evil! We have discussed God's decrees and man's responsibility previously. The ancient Israelites knew good from evil and...

Which means that most believe they are not helpless and in a hopeless, and that there is something good in them. God help such people who call evil good and good evil!

No! Total Depravity would leave God with powerless, helpless people to save, such as the Israelites in Egypt whom God RESCUED from the hopeless environment of slavery.

That's exactly what you did with passages like Jer 17:9 and/or Isa 1:5-6 because these passages strongly support the biblical doctrine of Total Depravity. You basically accused me of interpreting them out of context by saying that those passages only applied to apostate, rebellious Israel...

God's grace is infinitely powerful and, therefore, effective. How 'bout these NC promises? Ezek 36:24-27 24 "'For I will take you out of the nations; I will gather you from all the countries and bring you back into your own land. 25 I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I...

Nah...I don't think so.

Again, how is God's promise-keeping not gracious!? Did Abraham, Issac and Jacob deserve the promises in the first place? Or was God indebted to the patriarchs to make promises? In your world when God actually works in space and time to fulfill his promises, such as actually getting the...

He sent them into the wilderness because the promised land was far away from Egypt. They had to go through the wilderness to get to it. And the Jews remained in the wilderness for 40 years due to their disobedience! It was no fault of God that an entire generation died and weren't permitted...