The Total Depravity Trichotomy

Sin touched every part of every man but every man is not as evil as he can be. Many people are moral human beings but because of sin they are not capable of seeking God. Total depravity does not mean that they are incapable of doing good.
Jesus did not inherit sin from
Adam, he was able to seek God the Father. Jesus added humanity to himself and his flesh covered the Shekinah Glory.

 

No where however does the bible say man cannot believe the Gospel when he hears it .

 

We have been created in the image/likeness of GOD. The Book of James confirms that we still bear His image.

James 3:9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness.

Yet we come into this world as a member of a sinful race, condemned, helpless and without hope apart from the mercy and grace of our heavenly Father who abundantly provided that mercy and grace through faith in the death, burial and resurrection of our great God and Savior the LORD Jesus Christ.

So personally i prefer to say that apart from the image of GOD we are totally depraved.

 

Be careful you do not blaspheme GOD by cursing HIS IMAGE with your so called "Trichotomy" RULES brother.

James 3:9 With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness.

 

You forgot to add Marty... Jesus was fully human... AND FULLY GOD!!!

1 Timothy 3:16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Man is fully Adam and is Totally Depraved from head to toe, because the Bible says so!... Brother Glen

 

again IMO we should be careful when saying bad against another man since we are created in His image and likeness.

in my younger days i thought i was some sort of spiritual warrior by bringing down God's wrath upon the heads of God's "enemies"

Luke 9
54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.

Yes there is a time and place for this but the normal procedure is this:

2 Timothy 2
24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.