TOTAL DEPRAVITY
Terms used interchangeably : Radical Corruption Total Depravity Introduced What total depravity does not mean? · Total depravity is not utter depravity. Utter depravity means that we are all as sinful as we possibly could be. That is not the case. Humans are able to think of worse sins that they could have committed. Even Adolf Hitler refrained from murdering his mother. The fact that humans are not evil as they could be (maximum evil-ness) is God’s grace to His creatures. What is meant by total depravity? · Total depravity refers to the idea that our whole humanity is fallen. All part of a person has been affected in some way by the Fall. Sin affects our will, heart, mind, and body. · Total depravity also stresses the fact that sin reaches to the core of our being. Sin is not a surface thing. Sin touches the root of our lives. In that sense, it is radic...