They are both stupid and foolish… Every man is stupid and without knowledge
#Ecclesiasties all things done out of envy for men full#
Ecclesiastes 9:3 - Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.Titus 1:15-16 - to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.Jeremiah 17:9 - “ The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick who can understand it?”.Psalm 5:9 - For there is no truth in their mouth their inmost self is destruction their throat is an open grave they flatter with their tongue.Īre men totally depraved? Is every faculty of the person corrupted? Heart/Mind (Deceitful).All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.” (c.f. Mark 7:21-23 - “For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness.Mark 10:18/Luke 18:19 - And Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good except God alone.”Ĭ.f.If we say we have not sinned, we make a liar, and his word is not in us. 1 John 1:8,10 - If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.All have turned aside together they have become worthless no one does good, not even one.” (c.f. For we have already charged that all, both Jews and Greeks, are under sin, as it is written: “ None is righteous, no, not one no one understands no one seeks for God. Romans 3:9-12 - What then? Are we Jews any better off? No, not at all.The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul thus they weave it together. Micah 7:2-4 - The godly has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among mankind they all lie in wait for blood, and each hunts the other with a net.Isaiah 53:6 - All we like sheep have gone astray we have turned- every one-to his own way.2 Chronicles 6:36 - “there is no one who does not sin”.Romans 3:23 - for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.Romans 11:32 - For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.Psalm 143:2 - Enter not into judgment with your servant, for no one living is righteous before you.Job 15:14-16, 25:4-6 Ecclesiastes 9:3 All men? Are there any exceptions? Romans 5:12,19 - sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned… by the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinnersĬ.f.Romans 5:7-8 - For one will scarcely die for a righteous person-though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die- but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.Ecclesiastes 7:29 - “See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”.Can men do anything to help themselves?.Can men of themselves accept God’s gift of salvation? Do men choose God or come to Him on their own?.Can the natural man comprehend the gospel or come to saving knowledge of God on his own?.Can man then do anything to please God?.What is the natural disposition of man toward God?.Are men at least born pure? What about the “tabula rasa”?.Can men change themselves or still do good when they want to?.Are men totally depraved? Is every faculty of the person corrupted?.Is man basically good or basically evil?.(The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 byĬrossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (Thus the necessity of a gracious, unconditional election.) Here is a sweeping survey of the biblical support for the doctrine. The doctrine of total depravity (or total inability) says that all men, as a consequence of the Fall, are born morally corrupt, enslaved to sin, at enmity with God, and unable to please Him or even of themselves to turn to Christ for salvation.
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