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It's that time again, you guys. Time for another Ask Anything Theology episode.

I low-key love these episodes so much because I love anything that's rapid fire,

and I can kind of get through a lot at once, which is probably saying a little bit about my

personality, but I don't know. I feel like you get more bang for your buck because you're getting

multiple topics in short little snippets each episode. I don't know. You feel me? You know what I'm

talking about? Okay, so we're going to cruise through as many as I can get through of these questions.

I have answered these on my Instagram before, but I wanted to have a more permanent place to put

these, and then maybe I'll add a little bit of a bonus personal question and answer towards the end.

So let's start with this question. If we are in Christ, do we no longer have the identity

of a sinner and need of grace? I think this is a really good question, and it really goes back

to your theological perspective. So typically where we see a lot of this discussion of a sinner

and need of grace, or saying a sinner saved by grace, you know, in your Instagram profile,

et cetera, is in the reformed or Calvinistic community. And that's a lot to do with their

salvation theology, which is total depravity, meaning total inability. So little review, if you

haven't listened to the Calvinism episode, but Calvinists believe in total depravity, which is

more than just original sin. It also means you are totally unable to respond to God's call for

salvation because of your sin, whereas a classical or minion would say, no, God in his sovereignty has

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