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>Total Depravity is a false doctrine because it teaches >that one is totally unable to believe and obey God >unless he is regenerate (born again). But it is an >undeniable fact and very clearly taught in Scripture >that no one was born again prior to the resurrection >of Jesus Christ and so all the Jews who believed and >obeyed God prior to Jesus believed and obeyed him >apart from being born again. > >Calvinists on the other hand teach that those Old >Testament Jews under the Law and who believed and >obeyed God were born again. There is no such >evidence for such an outrageous claim and the only >reason they make this witless conjecture is because >they know that the only way one can claim that their >doctrine of Total Depravity is true is by making this >claim without any evidence whatsoever. And just think >about it. To be born again means that one was washed >in the blood of Christ by dying with him and raised up >anew into his resurrection life to become a temple of >the living God. So the Calvinist actually claims that >there were born again human temples washed in the >blood of Jesus who were then commanded by God to >sacrifice animals at a stone temple for their sins. >What sense can that ever make? None. God would not >dishonor the sacrifice of his son in such a way and >the Bible makes it clear that Christ's sacrifice made >it possible only after the cross to be born again into >the resurrection life of Jesus Christ. > >There was a reason John the Baptist came preaching the >kingdom is at hand and baptizing people into his >baptism of repentance. Something new was about to >happen. God was only now about to save his people, >the Jews from their sins (Mt 1:21) which they had >committed under the first covenant (Heb 9:15) so that >they could be born again into the resurrection life of >Chirst and live a new life. Thus the new covenant. > >There are many other Biblical reasons why the >Calvinistic concept of Total Depravity is a lie of the >devil. This is only one. > >SmartAsk

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