Playlist: Total Depravity, Doctrine of (topic)
Does Doctrine Really Matter? (Part Thirteen)
Sermon by John W. RitenbaughModern theologians developed the doctrine of total depravity to excuse mankind from any responsibility in the salvation process. They conclude that man is incapable of contributing anything to his own salvation, so concern about obedience becomes unnecessary. The text rejects this claim as unbiblical. While humanity is certainly …
Genesis 3:20-24: Consequences for God and Man
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughThe doctrine of total depravity holds that the Fall brought mankind into an estate of sin and misery, leaving humanity bereft of original righteousness, corrupt, utterly indisposed and disabled with respect to all spiritual good, wholly inclined to evil continually, and the source from which all actual transgressions proceed. …
Human Nature: Good or Evil?
Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughThe doctrine of total depravity, as understood within Protestant traditions that trace back to Augustinian thought on original sin, holds that all humanity is sinful and possesses no goodness capable of satisfying God. While not every aspect of human nature is depraved, depravity affects it entirely, so that even the good …
Keeping the Truth Pure
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Charles Whitaker (1944-2021)Eliphaz espouses the doctrine of the total depravity of man by asserting that a person born of a woman cannot be pure or righteous at all and that mankind is abominable and filthy, drinking iniquity like water. He reaches this conclusion after meditating on the teachings of a spirit that appeared to him in secret visions by …