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Blind From His Birth!

Discussion in 'Calvinism & Arminianism Debate' started by tyndale1946, Feb 27, 2021.

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  1. tyndale1946

    tyndale1946 Well-Known Member
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    John 9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

    "He saw a man which was blind from his birth." Accurately did he portray the terrible condition of the natural man. The sinner is blind spiritually. His understanding is darkened and his heart is blinded (Eph. 4:18). Because of this he cannot see the awfulness of his condition: he cannot see his imminent danger: he cannot see his need of a Savior—"Except a man be born again he cannot see" (John 3:3). Such an one needs more than light; he needs the capacity given him to see the light. It is not a matter of mending his glasses, or of correcting his vision, or of eye ointment. None of these reach, or can reach, the root of the trouble. The natural man is born blind spiritually, and a faculty missing at birth cannot be supplied by extra cultivation of the others. A "transgressor from the womb" (Isa. 48:8). shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin (Ps. 51:5), man needs a Savior from the time he draws his very first breath. Such is the condition of God’s elect in their unregenerate state—"by nature the children of wrath, even as others" (Eph. 2:3).

    All of us before Christ brought us to him were in the same condition and it is my belief and it has been since I got here, that the Holy Spirit alone, gives spiritual sight and I've heard every argument that denies it... Some are probably wondering where I've gone... Haven't gone anywhere but I have been keeping an eye on this board, which I always do... Actually doing an intensive study on the book of John and this is taken from Exposition Of The Gospel of John by Arthur Pink... Comments???... Brother Glen:)
     
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  2. Scott Downey

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    The total depravity of man, men will not come to the light lest they be exposed for their deeds are evil, so they slink back from the light of God to stay in the dark.

    John 3:19
    And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
    John 3:20
    For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
    John 3:21
    But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done (wrought-forged) in God.”


    Genesis 6
    5 Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
    6 And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
    7 So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.”
    8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.

    Genesis 8
    20 Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
    21 And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.

    22 “While the earth remains,
    Seedtime and harvest,
    Cold and heat,
    Winter and summer,
    And day and night
    Shall not cease.”
     
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    The imagination of man's heart is evil continually from his youth.
    Psalm 2
    1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

    2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

    3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
     
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