#total depravity

[theexodvs]

Before dating someone who claims to be a Christian, you need to know how they respond to all of the following questions.

1. Is Jesus the uncreated God? 2. Are Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit three coeternal persons? 3. Is Jesus fully divine and fully human? 4. Are all people born in a state of sin, inherited from Adam and Eve due to their transgression? 5. Are believers justified through faith, by the free grace of God? 6. Is the institution of marriage a lifelong covenant between one man and one woman, dissoluble only through death, abandonment, or adultery? 7. Is sexual intercourse a practice strictly for married couples?

All of these questions are either first-order matters of doctrine or would indicate how a dating relationship in particular would end up. In addition, there are questions I would ask about second- and third-order matters (limited atonement, spiritual gifts, infant baptism, etc). What additional questions you would ask would depend on your Biblical hermeneutic and how closely you would want a partner to agree, but I have made the mistake of not gauging previous partners’ doctrine.

[majormisunderstanding]

Gutter Gang, 1954. Cover art by Walter Popp.

[prairiedeath]

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Everyone can see that something is desperately wrong with the world. But to find the right solution, we must identify the source of our problems. Today, Steven Lawson teaches on the nature of sin and our ultimate need for God’s saving grace.

[notruvik]

i asked my mother what went wrong she said it's been bad all along

[slave-of-the-lord-jesus-christ]

[normalpersonblog]

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

‭‭Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭12‬ ‭

[llevronbelac]

"If people aren't born guilty sinners incapable of doing anything but sin, then wouldn't that mean that someone could hypothetically live a sinless life?"

Yes, His name is Jesus Christ.

Your hypothetical is an essential reality of the Christian faith.

[andrewpcannon]

The Scourge of Calvinism Pt. 2- Total Depravity vs Free Will

I am looking at the differences between Calvinism and Arminianism because I have been asked to. From the outset, I want to remind my brothers and sisters in Christ that it is important for us to remain humble, not categorically making enemies of others based on whatever differences we perceive their to be in our theology. I know that what I am speaking about uses certain terms that easily trigger…

[madewithonerib]

2.] The Context for This Rebuke

The story, the bombshell, & how it applies to three kinds of people here today. So first of all the story & here's the story:

If you were in Corinth, which was a city in a very tiny little piece of land, about 4 miles in circumference.

It's in the middle of Greece, below Greece was all the southern provinces & above Greece was all the northern provinces.

And there was one little tiny spit of land, only four miles across. Binding the North to the South.

And so Corinth was the ideal place to make money.

………………………………………………………………… Corinth was a commercial center because anybody who wanted to go North or South had to go through Corinth—every interstate highway went through it. …………………………………………………………………

Imagine that, but not only that—if anybody wanted to go on a boat from East to West, they could either go to Corinth & they could transport their cargo just four miles & put it on another boat

     or they could go hundreds of miles to the      South around the bottom…

You see, in other words, Corinth was in a sense a kind of ancient Panama Canal, it was a place where people had to go through for any kind of trade route whether it was by sea or by land.

2.1] Historically Destroyed by Romans

But in 146 B.C. Corinth was destroyed by the Romans because it rebelled against the Roman Empire that was rising at the time for 100 years.

Corinth was leveled, it was laid waste. Nobody lived there for 100 years from 146 B.C. until the middle of the century before CHRIST.

And Julius Caesar knew a good thing when he saw it & he put a little Roman Garrison there, & decided to turn it into a Roman Colony—because anybody who was there, was going to make a lot of money

In the next 200 years, actually in the next 100 years, from the time Julius Caesar restarted it to the time that we have this letter coming to us:

     Corinth exploded from nothing into one of      the biggest cities in the world, but it was a      unique city because first of all:

     [1] it had no aristocracy,      [2] it had no tradition,      [3] it didn't even have a native population

     And as a result this, it was one of the largest      cities, it was incredibly densely populated &      was totally diverse, utterly multi-ethnic

Because the only people who came to Corinth were people that came for one thing—the only thing that bound them together was

     one thing they came to make it! They came      to have success, they came to make money

And as a result, one ancient commentator/historian says that it was the most densely populated because it was all packed with hundreds of thousands of ppl..

     one of the biggest cities in the world at the      time that was stuck into that 4 mile parcel      into the most densely populated cities..

One of the most dog-eat-dog place, success-oriented, sex-obsessed cities in the world—there was no reason to be there except to be successful.

And they had to coin a word in that culture or society, that had been coined in the Roman Empire called to “corinthianize” it was a verb & the verb

     corinthianized means to live in utter      depravity — without any rules at all.

Better Than Miracles P1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 | Timothy J. Keller [1 Corinthians 13:1-3]

[shadowdancers]

The Veils | Total Depravity (2016)

This album is very spooky season. I’ve been listening to it while also rereading The Monstrumologist series by Rick Yancey. The lyrics don’t fit, but it matches the vibes for sure.

[brianchilton]

S6E18 The Depravity of Man: Total or Radical?

By: Dr. Brian Chilton and Curtis Evelo | February 9, 2023 S6E18 The Depravity of Man: Total or Radical? One of the major areas of dissension in soteriological studies is based on the nature of human depravity. To what extent are humans depraved by their sin nature? Does it impact them to the point that they can no longer hear from God, even if God were to speak to them directly? On episode S6E18…

[plaintalkchristianministries]

Explaining Calvinism. Explaining Calvinism's T.U.L.I.P. 

Explaining Calvinism. Explaining Calvinism’s T.U.L.I.P. 

Warning Beware of False Prophets / False Teachers: 2 Peter 2:1 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction Vs 1) Calvinism’s Damnable Heresies: Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement,…

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

Total Depravity The reason why Christian ethics are needed in our day is because man is totally depraved. Though man knows what is right, he insists on what is wrong and even suppresses the truth (Rom. 1:18). In this message, Dr. Steven Lawson considers the sinfulness of humanity and identifies our only hope for righteousness in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross. It is only in being redeemed that we can understand the true foundation of ethics.

[euroia]

[eff-plays]

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