Featured I Believe in the Doctrine of Total Depravity,

God has His Will, which is always done as he determines it.
Like you stated, sinners are restricted by being bound to a sinful nature.

 

No wait -- you are Calvinist - that means you have no idea what free will is - by definition. (At least that is the way that Calvinists seem to be playing that game lately)

And of course you did not answer the question in the post you quoted -- proving the conclusion I draw must be true.

 

Until you think about it. Free will means that the person has the ability to choose one way or the other and that there is nothing to stop them from choosing one way or the other. Specifically no overarching force that dictates their decision

 

Sorry to hear that.

 

Total Depravity.......Mankind's divine act of PERFECTLY choosing what is wrong better then God can choose what is right.

 

So then you are open to evidence? Objectivity? Free will - rather than predestined to ignore all the evidence posted?

In any case - I don't think this is a good thread to point to the flaw in your position since technically both Arminians and Calvinists accept the doctrine of depravity of the sinful nature.

Where "total depravity" totally fails is in the Bible texts that speak of the wicked 'hardening their heart'. You cannot "harden" something that is already "totally hardened".

So then if the term only means "predisposed to choose evil on at least some point" -- then we all basically agree that this is what the sinful nature does to mankind - and that the Romans 3 description of it is accurate.

 

I don't think either Arminians or Calvinists are arguing that the supernatural drawing of God is insufficient to overcome the disabled "Choice for the Gospel" that depravity would normally disable.

 

Yes, and both Classical Arminians and Calvinists agree on human inability apart from Divine Grace. And that this inability is a moral inability /ie enslaving love of sin. There is indeed a need of a radical work of Grace before we can even believe. There is definitely a "heart change" that inclines us to believe where before we had no such real inclination. I do not accept the whole package of Calvinism (I'm still examining parts of it), but I strongly believe in the doctrine of "moral inability"

 

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