A Question for Anti-Calvinists || Total Depravity || Total Inability

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A Question for Anti-Calvinists || Total Depravity || Total Inability

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[Ephesians-ynux]

“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”
‭‭Jeremiah‬ ‭17:9‬ ‭

[TheRomansGuy]

“If there is anything good why do we need to be new?” Ah! If this is the question whose answer could rescue you from Calvinism this is great news! Total Depravity defined as man’s total inability even to surrender to God is unbiblical. What is true is that all men have a sin nature and cannot do enough good to outweigh their bad and so force God to grant them eternal life. But, God has accepted the sacrifice of his son as payment for all sins so that now we need do nothing good to receive eternal life. Now all we need to do is literally nothing, stop worshipping ourselves and surrender to him. (Before you jump to the objection that this is a works based salvation know that surrender is abandonment of claim of earned rights so it is the opposite of a works based salvation where one attempts to earn eternal life.) Once we’ve surrendered we’re made new by the Holy Spirit and we are sealed and on the path to eternal life. Great news!

Your follow up objection about free will in heaven is also easily solved. There is free will in heaven, Satan and his angels are a good example of those who exercised their free will to close against God. The creatures depicted in Revelation that worship God constantly are some who exercise their free will to be in line with God. What assurance can the believer have that with their free will in heaven they won’t fall away? The apostles go to great lengths to assure us we won’t. That God will hold us fast, and we can imagine that with our renewed bodies and with his more greatly revealed glory, exercising our free will will be much easier than it is here on Earth.

[paul.phillips]

"They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one." Psalm 14:3 (ESV) Quoted in Romans 3:12. There is only One who is good. Praise God for the imputed righteousness of Christ!

[GioTummy]

I think you are misunderstanding those verses. None of us is good but we can come to Christ in humility and ask Him to renew us. Not by saying that we are good or somewhat good but by admitting that we are sinners and that we surrender to Him

[Drspeiser]

The idea that the ability to respond is the same as being good enough to save yourself is absolute BUFFOONERY, and wilful ignorance of the highest order.

Does a criminal's ability to raise his hands when a policeman orders him to do so at gunpoint mean that he has cleared himself in a court of law? It does if you're a consistent Calvinist!

[bumblyjack]

There isn't anything good in the lost man. Your question is a strawman of Non-Calvinist positions. Either engage with what they actually claim (such as Romans 4:5-6 portraying placing trust in Christ as the opposite of reliance on good works) or leave it alone. This is just operating in bad faith on par with campaign ad mudslinging.