Calvinism and Arminianism · Foundational
Total Depravity: Can a Lost Person Believe?
Sin has corrupted every part of every person, so that no one can save himself, but Scripture does not teach a total inability to respond: God commands all to believe and enables them through His Word and Spirit, and He gives life to those who do.
The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.
What you'll learn
1
Explain what total depravity means, and what it does not mean
2
State total inability as the Canons of Dort, Westminster, and Reformed teachers state it
3
Answer the strongest texts for total inability, verse by verse
4
Describe prevenient grace fairly, and show why it is not Pelagianism
5
Affirm the full ruin of sin and the sinner's real response to God's call
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