What do these children have in common

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What do these children have in common?
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Calvinism says they are sinners!
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Calvinism Defined otal depravity All are born
sinners nconditional election Predestined to
be lost or saved imited atonement Christ died
only for the elect rresistible grace Holy
Spirit received only by elect erseverance of
the saints Once saved, always saved
T U L I P
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Calvinism Defined otal depravity All are born
sinners
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TULIPTotal depravity
Defined

• They being the root of all mankind, the guilt of
  this
• sin was imputed and the same death in sin and
• corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity,
• descending from them by ordinary generation
• From this original corruption, whereby we are
  utterly
• disposed, disabled, and made opposite to all
  good, and
• wholly inclined to all evil, do proceed all
  actual
• transgressions.
• The Confession of Faith, pp. 42-43

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TULIPTotal depravity
Defined

• Original sin is conveyed from our first parents
  unto
• their posterity by natural generation, so as all
  that
• proceed from them in that way, are conceived and
• born in sinAll men, by reason of their
  relationship
• to Adam as their representative head and common
• ancestor, are born with a sinful nature, from
  which all
• actual transgressions proceed.
• The Confession of Faith, pp. 195, 442

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TULIPTotal depravity
Manifestations

• sinful nature---23 times in the NIV
• Thats just the way I am I was born that way
• Any philosophy which seeks to shift
• responsibility for one's actions away from
• one's own self is a direct by-product of
• Augustine's and Calvin's philosophies.

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TULIPTotal depravity
Justified
5 Behold, I was
brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother
conceived me. Psalms 515
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TULIPTotal depravity
Refuted
1 Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your
lovingkindness According to the greatness of
Your compassion blot out my transgressions. 2
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity And cleanse
me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions,
And my sin is ever before me. 4 Against You, You
only, I have sinned and done what is evil in Your
sight, So that You are justified when You speak
and blameless when You judge. 5 Behold, I was
brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother
conceived me. Psalms 511-5
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TULIPTotal depravity
Justified
3 Among them we too
all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh,
indulging the desires of the flesh and of the
mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even
as the rest. Ephesians 23
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TULIPTotal depravity
Refuted

1And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2
in which you formerly walked according to the
course of this world, according to the prince of
the power of the air, of the spirit that is now
working in the sons of disobedience. 3 Among them
we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our
flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of
the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
even as the rest. Ephesians 21-3
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TULIPTotal depravity
Refuted

• Denies mans accountability for actions
• But everyone will die for his own iniquity each
  man
• who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set
  on edge.
• Jeremiah 3130
• The soul who sins will die
• Ezekiel 184,20

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TULIPTotal depravity
Refuted

• Contradicts statements about children
• 37 They even sacrificed their sons and their
  daughters
• to the demons, 38 And shed innocent blood, The
• blood of their sons and their daughters, whom
  they
• sacrificed to the idols of Canaan and the land
  was
• polluted with the blood.
• Psalm 10637-38

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TULIPTotal depravity
Refuted

• Contradicts statements about children
• and said, "Truly I say to you, unless you are
  converted
• and become like children, you will not enter the
• kingdom of heaven.
• Matthew 183

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TULIPTotal depravity
Refuted

• Denies plain statements to the contrary
• Behold, I have found only this, that God made
  men
• upright, but they have sought out many devices."
  
• Ecclesiastes 729

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TULIPTotal depravity
Refuted

• Denies plain statements to the contrary
• I was once alive apart from the Law but when the
• commandment came, sin became alive and I died
• Romans 79

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TULIPTotal depravity
Refuted

• Makes it impossible to go from bad to worse
• But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad
  to
• worse, deceiving and being deceived.
• 2 Timothy 313

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TULIPTotal depravity
Refuted

• Contradicts definitions of sin
• Everyone who practices sin also practices
  lawlessness
• and sin is lawlessness.
• 1 John 34
• All unrighteousness is sin, and there is a sin
  not
• leading to death.
• 1 John 517

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Total depravity
let God be found true, but every man a
liar Romans 34

• God made men upright
• Everyone will die for his
• own iniquity
• You were dead in your
• trespasses and sins

• the guilt of sin was
• imputedconceived and
• born in sinwe are utterly
• disposed, disabled, and
• made opposite to all good,
• and wholly inclined to all
• evil,