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SCRIPTURE teaches and CALVINISTS believe:

The unbeliever will never freely choose God in his sinfulness because the heart of the unbeliever is wicked and deceitful (Jeremiah 17:9) and from within his heart flows all sorts of evil (Mark 7:21-23). He is a slave of sin (Romans 6:20), is dead in his trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1), is by nature a child of wrath (Ephesians 2:3), is at enmity with God (Ephesians 2:15), and cannot receive spiritual things (1 Corinthians 2:14). This is why he cannot come to Christ (John 6:44; John 6:65) - CARM

(T)otal depravity

• Gen. 6:5, "Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
• Gen. 8:21, "And the Lord smelled the soothing aroma; and the Lord said to Himself, "I will never again curse the ground on account of man, for the intent of man's heart is evil from his youth."
• Jer. 17:9, "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick. Who can understand it?"
• Mark 7:21-23, "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, 22 deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness."
• John 3:19, "This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil."
• John 3:27, "John answered and said, 'A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.'"
• John 6:44, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day."
• John 6:65, "And He was saying, ‘For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.’"
• John 8:34, "Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin."
• Rom. 3:10-12, "as it is written, ‘There is none righteous, not even one; 11 There is none who understands, there is none who seeks for God; 12 All have turned aside, together they have become useless. There is none who does good, there is not even one.’"
• Rom. 5:6, "For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly."
• Rom. 5:10, "For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life."
• Rom. 6:20, "For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness."
• Rom. 8:7, "because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so."
• 1 Cor. 2:14, "But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised."
• Eph. 2:1, "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins."
• Eph. 2:3, "Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest."
• Eph. 2:15, "by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus establishing peace

 

@Van is now invited to explain how all of these verses really mean something else since the Biblical teaching on the depravity of man is false.

 

For everyone else, some verses on:

God's work

It is God who appoints people to believe (Acts 13:48), chooses who is to be holy and blameless (Ephesians 1:4), predestines us to adoption (Ephesians 1:5), calls according to His purpose (2 Timothy 1:9), chooses us for salvation (2 Thessalonians 2:13), grants the act of believing (Philippians 1:29), works faith in the believer (John 6:28-29), grants us repentance (2 Timothy 2:24-25), causes us to be born again (1 Peter 1:3), makes us born again not by our will but by His will (John 1:12-13), draws people to Himself (John 6:44) , grants that we come to Jesus (John 6:65), predestines us to salvation (Romans 8:29-30), and he does all of this according to His purpose (Ephesians 1:11). - CARM

• John 1:12-13, "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, 13 who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God."
• John 6:28-29, "Therefore they said to Him, 'What shall we do, so that we may work the works of God?' 29 Jesus answered and said to them, 'This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent.'"
• John 6:44, "No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day."
• John 6:65, "And He was saying, 'For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.'"
• Acts 13:48, "When the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord; and as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed."
• Romans 8:29–30, “For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified."
• Eph. 1:4, "just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love."
• Eph. 1:5, "He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will."
• Eph. 1:11, "also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will."
• Phil. 1:29, "For to you it has been granted for Christ’s sake, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake."
• 2 Thess. 2:13, "But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth."
• 2 Tim. 1:9, "who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity."
• 2 Tim. 2:24-25, "The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, 25 with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth."
• 1 Pet. 1:3, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead."

 

Five points of Calvinism

Total depravity
Unconditional election
Limited atonement
Irresistible grace
Perseverance of the saints ​

Most objections to and attacks on Calvinism focus on the "five points of Calvinism", also called the doctrines of grace, and remembered by the mnemonic "TULIP". The five points were more recently popularized in the 1963 booklet The Five Points of Calvinism Defined, Defended, Documented by David N. Steele and Curtis C. Thomas. The origins of the five points and the acronym are uncertain, but they appear to be outlined in the Counter Remonstrance of 1611, a less known Reformed reply to the Arminians that occurred prior to the Canons of Dort. The acronym was used by Cleland Boyd McAfee as early as circa 1905. An early printed appearance of the T-U-L-I-P acronym is in Loraine Boettner's 1932 book, The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination. The acronym was very cautiously if ever used by Calvinist apologists and theologians before the booklet by Steele and Thomas.

The central assertion of these points is that God saves every person upon whom he has mercy, and that his efforts are not frustrated by the unrighteousness or inability of humans.

• "Total depravity", also called "total inability", asserts that as a consequence of the fall of man into sin, every person is enslaved to sin. People are not by nature inclined to love God, but rather to serve their own interests and to reject the rule of God. Thus, all people by their own faculties are morally unable to choose to trust God for their salvation and be saved (the term "total" in this context refers to sin affecting every part of a person, not that every person is as evil as they could be). This doctrine is derived from Calvin's interpretation of Augustine's explanation about Original Sin. While the phrases "totally depraved" and "utterly perverse" were used by Calvin, what was meant was the inability to save oneself from sin rather than being absent of goodness. Phrases like "total depravity" cannot be found in the Canons of Dort, and the Canons as well as later Reformed orthodox theologians arguably offer a more moderate view of the nature of fallen humanity than Calvin.

- Wikipedia

"The first to plead his case seems right, Until another comes and examines him." [Proverbs 18:17 NASB]

 

Then the Calvinist strawman you erected lies defeated.
If you actually READ my 'copy and paste' that explained what Calvinism teaches you would know what the T actually stands for.
If only Calvinism taught what you claim it teaches, your shout of victory would seem less hollow.

 

I will gladly devote days to answering every item in your post and every question you have, but I ask one small favor first so we are not talking PAST each other.

What do you think "total depravity" means?
Just give me your definition as you understand the term so we can start from the same "ground zero".

 

Please identify which specific Calvinistic claims related to "Total depravity" (aka. total inability) are false:

• all people are affected by Adam's sin
• every person is enslaved to sin
• People are not by nature inclined to love God
• People are inclined to serve their own interests
• People are inclined to reject the rule of God
• all people by their own faculties are morally unable to choose to trust God for their salvation
• all people by their own faculties are morally unable to save themselves
• sin affects every part of a person
  
• (every person is NOT as evil as they could be)

 

... Except all those verses in the OP.

 

Untrue, every Calvinist will affirm that Hindus and Muslims and Jehovah's Witness are all working their butts off seeking "god".
What Calvinists claim is that fallen men is "morally unable to choose to trust God for their salvation".
That's the part of Calvinism that you refuse to even try to understand. [see Ephesians 2:1-10]