Total Depravity

Connections List
 * Freewill bin
 * The Fall
 * Gave them over
 * Evil, Sin
 * The Will
 * TULIP (Calvinism)
 * Election
 * Death
 * Freewill
 * Regeneration
 * Adam first, OG sin
 * Types of Sinners
 * All have sinned
 * God despite man weakness

Definition
 * Man cannot come to God on his own power
 * Slaves to sin
 * vs. humanism / PC progress

Topics
 * Mech
 * Verses
 * Blind
 * Humans are terrible
 * Explanation from a website

Mech
 * Man cannot come to God on his own power, save himself, be good, etc.
 * Pragmatically, we have the choice the come to God. You cannot say "I don't believe, God must not have chosen me" because you don't know his secret will. Practically if you follow him, we will then know that God chose you. (idk what tulip this should be under)

Verses
 * Job 14:4 who can bring what is pure from the impure? no one!
 * Job 15:14 "what are mortals, that they could be pure?..."
 * Some death imagery is overlapped in Regneration page
 * Titus 3:3 enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures
 * Eph 2:1-3 dead in sins, Col 2:13

Blind
 * Blindness healed, Pharisees called blind leading blind, JC came so the blind would see and the seeing would go blind (Jn 9:39). If you were blind you wouldn't have sin (v41)
 * 2 Cor4:4 "The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel that displays the glory of Christ, who is the image of God."
 * John 12:40 / Isaiah 6:10 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”
 * cf 2Pet1

Humans are terrible
 * We cannot even love ourselves well
 * Often make decisions we don't want to make. Our 'better' selves.

from http://www.calvinistcorner.com/tulip.htm Calvinism also maintains that because of our fallen nature we are born again not by our own will but God’s will (John 1:12-13); God grants that we believe (Phil. 1:29); faith is the work of God (John 6:28-29); God appoints people to believe (Acts 13:48); and God predestines (Eph. 1:1-11; Rom. 8:29; 9:9-23)."
 * "The doctrine of Total Depravity is derived from scriptures that reveal human character: Man’s heart is evil (Mark 7:21-23) and sick Jer. 17:9). Man is a slave of sin (Rom. 6:20). He does not seek for God (Rom. 3:10-12). He cannot understand spiritual things (1 Cor. 2:14). He is at enmity with God (Eph. 2:15). And, is by nature a child of wrath (Eph. 2:3). The Calvinist asks the question, "In light of the scriptures that declare man’s true nature as being utterly lost and incapable, how is it possible for anyone to choose or desire God?" The answer is, "He cannot. Therefore God must predestine."