Total Depravity
Total Depravity - is it Biblical?
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Total depravity is a phrase or name that is used to summarize what the Bible teaches about the spiritual condition of fallen man. Because the name “total depravity” can cause people to have wrong ideas about what is meant, some people prefer to use terms like “total inability,” “righteous incapability,” “radical corruption” or even “moral inability.”
Radical Depravity
James M. Boice & Philip G. Ryken
Despair has overtaken the humanist idealism of the tremendous optimism of the age of Enlightenment, and sin has come to be recognized as a depressing fact of life.
Human Inability
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A Sermon on John 6:44 delivered on Sunday, March 7, 1858, at the music hall, Royal Surrey Gardens in London.
Excellent Exegesis of the text!
Total Depravity or Total Inability
David N. Steele and Curtis C. Thomas
The view one takes concerning salvation will be determined, to a large extent, by the view one takes concerning sin and its effects on human nature.
Adam's Fall and Mine
R.C. Sproul, PhD
Answers the difficult question that shrouds the Doctrine of Predestination: how our sinful nature can be inherited from Adam. We remember that original sin does not refer to the first sin but to the result of that first sin.
The Truth about Man
Paul David Washer
A Biblical Study of the Doctrine of Man (83 pages).
Total Inability
Loraine Boettner
Paul, Augustine, and Calvin have as their starting point the fact that all mankind sinned in Adam and that all men are “without excuse,” Rom. 2:1. An excellent, detailed study.
The Deceitfulness of the Heart
David Black
Men may amuse themselves and their fellow creatures with empty, high sounding descriptions of the dignity of human nature, and the allsufficient powers of man; but every humble, every truly enlightened mind, will see and acknowledge that the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Radical Depravity
Various Authors
This is a 50 page booklet containing nine superb articles by nine authors on the subject of Radical Depravity.
Excellent Resource!
Man's Need of Salvation
Brian Schwertley
This study of God’s sovereign grace in salvation begins the effect of the fall upon man and the doctrine of original sin. This teaching is crucial for understanding the doctrine of salvation because one’s understanding of the effects of the fall upon mankind will largely determine one’s view of salvation.
Unregenerate Knowledge of God
John M. Frame, DD
Good teaching proceeds from the known to the unknown. So a good apologist will want to have some idea of what an inquirer already knows about God. Do non-Christians have any knowledge of the true God? If so, what do they know? In what ways does that knowledge manifest itself?
14 eBooks on Total Depravity
Various Authors
Each of these 14 eBooks can be downloaded in various formats to your computer or smart phone.
Excellent resources!
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