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definitions of total depravity comes to us not by John Calvin, but Jacobus Arminians. He would never have

dreamed of denying the doctrine of total depravity, because it's basic Christian Orthodox.

Orthodoxy. He knew people were totally depraved. The only difference with

Jacobus Arminius, that's where we get Arminians, is not that he denied total depravity,

that he thought that people were somehow born in a moral, neutral state. He knows that that's

completely antithetical to everything the Bible teaches. Jacobus Arminus, all he thought was that people are born

totally depraved, but that there's such a thing as provenient grace. And that prevenient grace

was something that would come to a person before saving faith actually occurred, and it would be

kind of a window of opportunity unto salvation a window of

grace and that under prevenient grace which often would come through the preaching of the gospel

perhaps in an old-timey you know revival meeting that the holy spirit would work sovereignly this

prevenient grace and that it would bring the individual person

to a temporary state of neutrality. Not that they were born with moral neutrality. They were born,

even according to the father of Armenianism, totally depraved. But in some kind of moment, a window

of grace with a prevenient grace, it would bring someone

who's totally depraved to all the way up. It would temporarily suspend their spiritual blindness.

So like the man who Jesus prays for it, and he says, can you see now? He says, well, I see people

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