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This is distinct from Total Depravity, which states that the ALL the free actions of Man will be IN SOME RESPECT Depraved. Not "always as unholy as they can possibly be", but rather, "always unholy according to God's standard of righteousness". The Natural Man is capable of acting in both actively malicious and humanely benevolent manners. One who acts in a humanely benevolent manner is NOT Utterly depraved. He is not seeking to be "as bad as he can possibly be", he is just seeking to be "Good" according to his own humanly-constructed, self-righteous conception of "good".

That is funny, because when I stated that man could do relative good one of the Calvinist brethren stated that everything unregenerate man did was a sin and evil. I hope he caught your post.

Your #1052: That is funny, because when I stated that man could do relative good one of the Calvinist brethren stated that everything unregenerate man did was a sin and evil. I hope he caught your post.

OPie and Jerry need to come to agreement among themselves. See Jerry's #302. Jerry's view of Totally Depraved has quite consistently been more like wholly or utterly depraved, indistinguishable (thus far) from demonic.