Mark

Cheryl
“Isaiah 53:6 sums up my view quite nicely. It says that we have all sinned and gone to our own ways. It does not say that all of us are totally depraved people. Man, if all people were totally depraved you couldn’t walk outside your door in the day time, let alone the night time.”

Here again you have not understood the doctrine. Total depravity does not say people will always do evil things. In fact i have said already about God’s common grace in which you agreed. Total depravity saids that every aspect of our nature has been corrupted because of sin, if i can try to summarise it. That is, our will, minds, soul etc are totally depraved in that they are corrupted by sin. Sin seperates us from God, does it not, therefore we in all our nature are seperated from God. You have again not represented the doctrine correctly. It’s hard to discuss with you, when you don’t understand what you oppose.