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Total Depravity--The Most Politically Incorrect Revelation in the Bible (Romans 3:1-20)
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From Imus' vocal violence on the Beltway to Cho Seung-Hui real shots in Blacksburg, VA our entire culture again grapples with the thorny question--how do basically good human beings do such hurtful, violent things to one another. In a by-gone era the word "sin" would have been raised, and the idea of our basic goodness would have been called into question. Now we are enlightened, and we talk instead about crudeness and context, isolation, and mental illness. I believe it's time to open the pages of the book that shaped our culture more than any other and think again about total depravity—that’s what the dusty old theologians used to called it. It’s the most politically incorrect doctrine in the bible, but after a week where we mourn 32 victims of raging, murderous violence, its time to turn to Romans 3 and think again about what goes on deep inside the human heart.
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