A rotting, putrid corpse - Paul Washer

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[sketchbook]

When you're preaching to the lost, you're preaching to people that are dead to God, but they are people for whom Christ died, and for whom you are supposed to be offering the word of life, and sincere offer of salvation.
You're not preaching in vain to "putrid, rotting corpses, " but rather those who are separated from a relationship with the Father; made in His image but now captive to sin and Satan-- dead but people whom He's looking to make alive.

[eltonron]

Very simple. The wage of unforgiven sin, is death, not the gift of life, to suffer and burn for eternity.

[sketchbook]

The Prodigal Son was also a "corpse" and dead. But he came to his senses and returned to his father. The father said, "he was dead, but is now alive!" Death is separation from the Father, not corpse-like deadness.
According to Calvinism, the cesspool for the corpse CANNOT be because of his OWN sins, because that dead man, according to Calvinism's interpretation of Scripture, Esau was hated from eternity past, "before he had done anything good or bad, " and thus those who aren't elect are made to be hardened and dead from birth.
Any sin the man has done, therefore, has nothing to do with his own will or causation, as according to Calvinism, God has made that dead man dead, and a "vessel of wrath."
At least Mr. Washer attempts here at the end to address the obvious elephant in the room-- if a man is dead, how can he even sin? But somehow, he tries to claim that he's "animated to sin" and thus they can have their deterministic cake and eat free will, too...