DENOMINATIONAL DOCTRINES ROMANS 5:8-18 Text

TOTAL HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY Contradicts plain Bible teaching –Ezekiel 28:12-15 –Ezekiel 18:19-23

TOTAL HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY God’s word teaches babes are innocent –Jeremiah 19:3-5 –Psalm 106: –Matthew 18:1-3 –Matthew 19:14 –2 Samuel 12:22-23

TOTAL HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY How can you degenerate if you are already totally depraved? –2 Timothy 3:12-13 –2 Peter 2:20

TOTAL HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY Sin is the end product of temptation –James 1:12-15 –Matthew 4:1 –Hebrews 4:15 –1 John 3:4

TOTAL HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY This doctrine makes being reconciled impossible –2 Corinthians 5:18-21 –Romans 5:1-11

TOTAL HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY This doctrine makes God a contributor to man’s sin –Proverbs 20:27 –Hebrews 12:9 –James 1:17 –Acts 17:29

TOTAL HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY If all babies are born with sin then Christ was born with sin –2 Corinthians 5:21 –Hebrews 4:15 –1 Peter 2:21-22

TOTAL HEREDITARY DEPRAVITY Conclusion –Is this doctrine of total hereditary depravity true? –The bible clearly declares it to be false! –Man has a problem with sin but not because he was born with it.