A (brief) Biblical Case for Arminianism, Part 1: Total Depravity

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Arminianism is defined by the 5 Points of Remonstrance:
F - Freed to believe (i.e. Prevenient Grace)
A - Atonement for All
C - Conditional Election
T - Total Depravity
S - Security in Christ
In this video, I outline a Biblical case for Total Depravity, looking at the nature of man after the Fall, as well as the contributions of Satan to our state.
For more, check out my past video "A Cumulative Scriptural Case for Inability & Our Need for Prevenient Grace": • A Cumulative Scriptura...
Further reading:
- Gospel Encounter, "Richard Watson on the origin of Depravity: “the withdrawing of that Spirit from Adam” (1832)": gospelencounter.wordpress.com...
- Gospel Encounter, "James Arminius on the origin of depravity / 'original sin'" : gospelencounter.wordpress.com...
- Travis Carden, "A sweeping survey of the biblical support for the doctrine of Total Depravity": gospelencounter.wordpress.com...
- Brian Abasciano, "The FACTS of Salvation: A Summary of Arminian Theology/the Biblical Doctrines of Grace": evangelicalarminians.org/the-...
- "The Five Articles of Remonstrance (1610)": beyondcalvinism.blogspot.com/...
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - What are the 5-points of Arminianism?
02:25 - A look at Total Depravity
02:54 - Where do we find Total Depravity in Scripture?
03:34 - Are we born with this nature?
05:51 - Which is it? Are we born unable, or is Satan deceiving us?
06:31 - Passages that show impossibility to believe
07:26 - Did God Create us this way? With total inability only to give it back with Prevenient Grace?
08:14 - What about this "hostility toward God"? Why would He create us hostile to Himself?
09:33 - How did mankind become Satan's "offspring"?

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@nungus145 Күн бұрын

I'm a devout Presbyterian, and by nature a devout Calvinist, but make no mistake, seeing someone articulate the Arminian position in a thorough manner like this is informing, and entertaining. Many Arminians it seems don't care to articulate their theology as Calvinists do. I thank you, my brother, for putting something like this together as a resource.

@thebark_barx6231 Күн бұрын

Thank you for the positive case

@emanuelbatalla2419 12 сағат бұрын

Great video! As a fellow Arminian you have a new subscriber 👍

@leviwarren6222 19 сағат бұрын

I'm actually surprised there are entire groups of Armenians who hold to total depravity. Most of the Armenians I'm familiar with hold to the Armenian belief of free will being the mechanism by which we each take on sin. The doctrine of total depravity is consistent only with a belief that Christ, being fully human, was born sinful by dint of His humanity.

@Dizerner 13 сағат бұрын

Arminians believed in "Freed will," that grace is necessary to make righteous choices. But your idea of Jesus needing a sin nature if we have one, that is not a sound idea.

@leviwarren6222 9 сағат бұрын

@@Dizerner It's not my idea and it's not a sound one. To believe that every human is born with original sin (Calvinism) is to tacitly admit that Christ (fully human) was born sinful. An Arminian view posits that Christ was born sinless with the free will to choose to sin but did not.

@Dizerner 8 сағат бұрын

@@leviwarren6222 Arminians believe in Original Sin, that all except Christ are born with a sin nature. Although Christ became human, he was grafted into the human race without a male involvement, showing he bypassed the sin nature we are born with.

@WoodenDialogue 5 сағат бұрын

I think there is a historical case to be made that Original Sin need not be inheriting the guilt of sin from Adam, but instead inheriting the nature of sin (that is, the inclination and tendency towards sin) from Adam. In this understanding, Christ need only have experienced temptation as we do, not to have sinned or been sinful (as we see in Hebrews 4:15)