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Victor Lafleur
Thank you for your honest and candid portrayal of total depravity. This is one of the most challenging topics in today evangelical world. Unfortunately, most get it wrong or refuse to see God's total sovereignty in man's salvation and would rather it be all man's decision. Oh what a sinful, wretched nature we have without Christ!
Larry Truelove
I believe that human nature is corrupted by sin, but not to the degree as taught in Calvinist doctrine. It is taught that the human will cannot cooperate because it is "dead." I believe we are "dead in sins" (Eph. 2:1), not in the sense of being unable to cooperate with God's Holy Spirit, but in the sense that a person condemned to execution is as good as dead. Abimelech was told by God that he was a "dead man" in Genesis 20:3, or possibly spiritually useless as in James 2:17. I find that more plausible than the meaning of the term as understood in Calvinism.