What Is Total Depravity? - Honest Calvinist Conference

Recently, in an alternate universe, Calvinist thought leaders from all across the world met together at the first annual Honest Calvinist Conference. The second day session focused on the doctrine of Total Depravity.

These leading Calvinists continued to speak of Calvinism as it is, raw and unfiltered. Men like John MacArthur of @gracetoyou James White of @AominOrg Steven Lawson of @ligonier Josh Buice of @G3Ministries Paul Washer of @Heartcrymissionary Voddie Baucham of @gfbc1689 and many others gathered together for the first time, to reveal what Calvinism REALLY believes about Total Depravity.

#parody #calvinism #depravity #satire

🚨 Yes, we used AI and some editing to provide this humorous critique of the Doctrines of Grace. HOWEVER, the statements made during the intro sequence, prior to Josh Buice speaking are 100% real clips taken from the actual speaker. These actual statements are used to ground our subsequent critique. AI is only used once Josh Buice comes on screen and from then on it's satire driven entirely by AI.

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[jordandthornburg]

One day these will reach hundreds of thousands of views.

[jules]

"I will of course be reading from the Elect Superior Version" 😭😂 Pure gold!

[DonieleEdwards]

These "honest" calvinist conference videos are definitely the most awesome ones to date. They are of such great value as the really display the true nature of this philosophical system. Kudos brother ❤❤

[JasonJrake]

This is a thing of beauty.

Thank you for being divinely predestined to make this 😅.

[faithonfireministries]

I recognize that venue. That is First Baptist Orlando, a church I'm quite familiar with in my town. They are not Calvinists but they had been renting out their huge church each year to Ligonier Ministries for their annual Orlando Conference. John MacArthur, Justin Peters and other Calvinist discernment channels all pounced on that church and their pastors in 2022 all at once, one inspiring the other to jump in with the false accusations and big lie that it is a pro-LGBTQ church when in reality they are opposed to that and often preach against LGBTQ as sexually immoral sin. These Calvinists know their followers won't check them for accuracy. Those guys make up any slanderous lie about those that are not Calvinists and their audience feeds on such juicy gossip.

So, fans of Ligonier Ministries having bought into that big lie made a huge stink and demanded Ligonier hold their 2023 conference in a different Orlando venue, not a pro-LGBTQ church. So, Ligonier at first refused, defended their decision to return to First Baptist Orlando in 2023 but eventually gave in, and they canceled with First Baptist Orlando. Instead, in Spring 2023, Ligonier held their conference at the massive 7 million square feet, government-owned and very pro-LGBTQ Orlando conference center called the OCCC (Orange County Convention Center). Instead of being in their own dedicated church building and sanctuary, they had to share the massive convention facility with other simultaneous convention events like the Global Pet Expo 2023. How ironic and absolutely hilarious.

[JohnSmith-txys]

It’s your magnum opus. I’m sure this was a tremendous amount of work. I pray that God uses this resource to awaken some Calvinists, but more importantly, warn millions of regular believers of the true implications of Calvinism.

[mikemaynard]

It’s crazy how deceptive Calvinism is. If only they were this honest. Once again, another awesome video!

[jules]

"Augustine famously noted how he was unable to read either the Hebrew or Greek scriptures- in fact he relied solely on Jerome's Latin translation...sola scriptura, as it were..." 🙈

[shepherd]

Warren, pure gold my man, pure gold, keep revealing the truth!!!

[WellManNerd]

When this is done you need to make sure it is a playlist to share

[stephenmorrison]

I didn't know there was going to be a series! These are great 😅.

[tedfordhyde]

I laughed out loud at the part about James White autographing bow ties and selling his books at the back! Fantastic! Lol!😂

[rebsince]

This stuff is solid gold…And what’s so funny is if they were truly honest, and would just come out and reach the logical end of their assertions, it would lead exactly to the conclusions stated here. Brilliant work.

[JohnSmith-txys]

Warren, please make one where they scoff at the murder of Servetus, Jacques Gruet, and all the others. Cite 1Jn 3:15 and have them use situational ethics to justify it. It needs to be a little morbid. No one told me about that stuff when I was Calvinist. I didn’t even learn about it until years after I left the sect.

[alanrhoda]

Nice job! I especially like the way you connect total depravity with PSA toward the end. You're right. Given total depravity Jesus couldn't have been "made like his brothers in every respect" and remain sinless, so it follows that Jesus only appeared to be like us (Docetism), and therefore atonement has to be centered around something other than the incarnation. Enter PSA.

[DiGrace]

How ANY intelligent, Bible believing Christian go for this? It's beyond comprehension. This parody is priceless btw.

[TatteredBiblePodcast]

We need to do our own conference. Call it the Total Truth Conference. We can have Idol Killer, John 17, Black Sheep Theology, Tattered Bible, as well as some of my Oneness Friends like 238Media, Word Warriors, Bishop Jerry Hayes, and someone like Marvin Sanguinetti or Clayton Killion.

I bet we could out perform any Calvinist Conference out there. This would also build a bridge between the Non Reformed such as Warren and Oneness people such as myself.

We could have panels, debates, sermons, Bible studies, lectures, prayer, and worship concerts. Keep the prices for tickets low, and make deals with certain hotels to get discounts for those that purchase early access tickets or backstage passes.

[salvadaXgracia]

"If you're having trouble reconciling Scripture with Calvinism, then just put down your Bibles and go buy my books." 🤣😬 Oof! No truer words. Thanks, Honest Calvinist Conference!

Honestly these are fantastic.

I loved the part about them being known for expositional preaching so you won't notice them slipping in a little eisegesis here and there. I would love one of these with them getting into that more- explaining their version of "Sola Scriptura"- i.e. lots of Calvinist prereqs before you're ready- Catechism, WCF/LBCF, RC Sproul lectures, John Piper books, etc. Can't see Scripture clearly without the right glasses after all. Also make sure your copy of sola scriptura is a MacArthur Study Bible. And you can't question any famous Calvinist preachers using only the Bible as your text if you haven't even read Calvin's Institutes yet.

Thanks for the laughs! 🙌

[keith]

Ah the doctrine of 'total depravity', a term never used once in the Bible, one when looked up on Google the first words in the definition is 'the Calvinist doctrine'. That's honest.

[sylviaa]

I hit the like button even before watching cos I already predicted this would be good!
Even before ever knowing anything about Calvinism soteriology, I found Steve Lawson & Paul Washer terribly depressing to listen to.