A (brief) Biblical Case for Arminianism, Part 1: Total Depravity
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Published 2024-06-29
F - Freed to believe (i.e. Prevenient Grace)
A - Atonement for All
C - Conditional Election
T - Total Depravity
S - Security in Christ
In this video, I outline a Biblical case for Total Depravity, looking at the nature of man after the Fall, as well as the contributions of Satan to our state.
For more, check out my past video "A Cumulative Scriptural Case for Inability & Our Need for Prevenient Grace": • A Cumulative Scriptural Case for Inab...
Further reading:
- Gospel Encounter, "Richard Watson on the origin of Depravity: “the withdrawing of that Spirit from Adam” (1832)": gospelencounter.wordpress.com/2023/04/28/richard-w…
- Gospel Encounter, "James Arminius on the origin of depravity / 'original sin'" : gospelencounter.wordpress.com/2023/11/21/james-arm…
- Travis Carden, "A sweeping survey of the biblical support for the doctrine of Total Depravity": gospelencounter.wordpress.com/2023/02/23/travis-ca…
- Brian Abasciano, "The FACTS of Salvation: A Summary of Arminian Theology/the Biblical Doctrines of Grace": evangelicalarminians.org/the-facts-of-salvation-a-…
- "The Five Articles of Remonstrance (1610)": beyondcalvinism.blogspot.com/p/the-five-articles-o…
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - What are the 5-points of Arminianism?
02:25 - A look at Total Depravity
02:54 - Where do we find Total Depravity in Scripture?
03:34 - Are we born with this nature?
05:51 - Which is it? Are we born unable, or is Satan deceiving us?
06:31 - Passages that show impossibility to believe
07:26 - Did God Create us this way? With total inability only to give it back with Prevenient Grace?
08:14 - What about this "hostility toward God"? Why would He create us hostile to Himself?
09:33 - How did mankind become Satan's "offspring"?
All Comments (6)
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Great video! As a fellow Arminian you have a new subscriber 👍
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I'm a devout Presbyterian, and by nature a devout Calvinist, but make no mistake, seeing someone articulate the Arminian position in a thorough manner like this is informing, and entertaining. Many Arminians it seems don't care to articulate their theology as Calvinists do. I thank you, my brother, for putting something like this together as a resource.
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Thank you for the positive case
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So then Jesus was born totally depraved? Or do you deny that He came in the flesh, the same flesh as us?
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I'm actually surprised there are entire groups of Armenians who hold to total depravity. Most of the Armenians I'm familiar with hold to the Armenian belief of free will being the mechanism by which we each take on sin. The doctrine of total depravity is consistent only with a belief that Christ, being fully human, was born sinful by dint of His humanity.
