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"Kids, this is the very definition of Total Depravity. Please go look it up. This is why the Lutherans, Calvinists, etc are not simply “variations” of a “reformed” Catholicism. No, they are a completely different religion, because they deny that men have free will. They deny that a sinful act is the result of a person making a conscience choice to do wrong, because they believe man is so utterly inclined toward sin that resisting it is futile."

This is not what is meant by total depravity. First off, what the author originally describes and says is the "very definition" of total depravity is actually just original sin. Total depravity merely says that the sinful nature of man infects every aspect of his being. It does not say that man is as depraved as he can possibly be, certainly man is capable of and often does much good. It merely says that the sinful nature of man extends to his entire ("total") being.

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