I'm sorry, but I don't buy the idea that the unregenerate can do some things which are good, but yet the man is still "Totally Depraved."
BTW, brother, how did you like the way I introduced you at the table during lunch?
***BTW, brother, how did you like the way I introduced you at the table during lunch?***
Man, you need to warn me before you do that again. Introducing me to a table full of AOG Pentecostals as a 6-Point Calvinist because "he fully believes in burning heretics" was wild. I thought that one woman was going to fall out of her chair or choke on the taco or something.
The only way you could have gotten a bigger effect was by bringing a gas can with you.
I'll get to your issue with Total Depravity later.
Don't be sorry. You'll get it eventually.
The point is unregenerate man can do nothing to save himself. The sun shines on both the saints and the reprobate. Hitler liked animals and Buddhists can love their children.
But unless God's grace regenerates him through faith in Jesus Christ, the fallen son of Adam remains as dead as Lazarus.
Salvation is all of God and none of us, ordained by Him from before the foundation of the world, or else it is a salvation of our good works and sensible choices, just like Rome always said it was.