Total Depravity
The Doctrine of Total Depravity
Hamartiology · 5 verses
Total depravity means that sin has affected every part of human nature—mind, will, affections, and body. No aspect of man's being is untouched by the corruption of sin. This does not mean that people are as wicked as they could possibly be, but that sin's corruption extends to the totality of human existence, rendering man incapable of spiritual good.
Scripture References
“And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.”
“Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.”
“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”