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2009-07-15 – David Watson – Calvinism Part 4: Total Depravity

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Calvinism Part 4:? Total Depravity

By David Watson

Benchley, July 15, 2009

• Luke 13:22-30
  • Calvinists interpret this to mean that people are not able to enter the narrow gate (verse 24) because of their total depravity.
  • The same verse 24 says that these same people are seeking God, but those that seek God are not totally depraved by definition.
  • I Corinthians 3:2; Matthew 25:10-13?- Examples of opportunities lost.? In Luke 13, the people lost the opportunity for salvation because they were “workers of iniquity” (verse 27).
• Ephesians 2:1-3
  • The Calvinist view on this is that without God, man is incapable of willing and doing good.
  • Sin does cause spiritual death (separation from God) (verse 1).
  • The Ephesians used to walk in sin (routinely practice it) (verse 2).
  • Paul says we were all like this before we became Christians.? We did not restrain ourselves from fulfilling desires of the flesh (verse 3).
    • I Corinthians 11:14?- nature here refers to societal custom, not something innate to man.
    • Nature in verse 3 just means that they had sinned so much that the sin had become second nature.
    • Romans 2:14?- Here the nature of man is shown to be good, which directly contradicts the Calvinist position.
    • Ephesians 4:17-29?- Man’s will in the matter.