Total Depravity
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We are born spiritually dead and disconnected from God.
The day Adam ate the fruit, his spirit died and mankind was disconnected spiritually from God. Eve was too. They could then only reproduce spiritually dead children and that's how when we are born "in Adam", we are born "in sin". Every man on this planet ever born was born this way...... save one. See Mary was not impregnated by a man was she. This wasn't just for God to "show off", Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit, He was born whole and not of the corrupt seed of Adam. That is why they call him the 2nd Adam. And also why the virgin birth was necessary and is so completely genius.
So total depravity is a way of saying that we are ALL born broken, ad it is absolutely truth, even for the little new born baby. It would be so tragic concerning babies dying, if I didn't know how merciful and forgiving our glorious God is. So what do you think, are we "born good"?
The day Adam ate the fruit, his spirit died and mankind was disconnected spiritually from God. Eve was too. They could then only reproduce spiritually dead children and that's how when we are born "in Adam", we are born "in sin". Every man on this planet ever born was born this way...... save one. See Mary was not impregnated by a man was she. This wasn't just for God to "show off", Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit, He was born whole and not of the corrupt seed of Adam. That is why they call him the 2nd Adam. And also why the virgin birth was necessary and is so completely genius.
So total depravity is a way of saying that we are ALL born broken, ad it is absolutely truth, even for the little new born baby. It would be so tragic concerning babies dying, if I didn't know how merciful and forgiving our glorious God is. So what do you think, are we "born good"?
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You asked "And exactly how does this intervetion accure?"
John 16:8
Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me; of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
It is my understanding that it is the work of the Holy Spirit that convicts the heart of sin that brings about repentance. The Bible teaches no one can come to the Father unless the Father draws them. John 6:44. Jesus says, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day"12. This passage emphasizes the necessity of divine intervention for someone to come to faith in Jesus.
John 16:8
Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: of sin, because they do not believe in Me; of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged. “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.
It is my understanding that it is the work of the Holy Spirit that convicts the heart of sin that brings about repentance. The Bible teaches no one can come to the Father unless the Father draws them. John 6:44. Jesus says, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day"12. This passage emphasizes the necessity of divine intervention for someone to come to faith in Jesus.
Precisely! Yet there are those who believe they needed no help from God at all, and that the natural man is
perfectly capable, while a slave to sin, of making a choice to believe the One he is hostile in his mind toward.
They are stuck on some made up doctrine that is nowhere found or taught in the Bible.
Jesus’ words in John 6:65
perfectly capable, while a slave to sin, of making a choice to believe the One he is hostile in his mind toward.
They are stuck on some made up doctrine that is nowhere found or taught in the Bible.
Jesus’ words in John 6:65
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he'd never needed to be forgiven before..
i wonder what he was afraid of?
i wonder what he was afraid of?
1 John 4:18
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“I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.” Scripture explicitly states he
was afraid, and it is natural enough for us to assume they felt ashamed of their nakedness given that they
sought to cover it, whereas before eating the forbidden fruit, they felt no shame toward their nakedness...
was afraid, and it is natural enough for us to assume they felt ashamed of their nakedness given that they
sought to cover it, whereas before eating the forbidden fruit, they felt no shame toward their nakedness...
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