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    Is total depravity (radical corruption) a biblical teaching?

    I'm not too confident in using selected quotes from anyone to try and make a point...….. not even Obama nor Trump. But, I do strongly believe in a fuller reading to see who they really are, such as a complete book (or 2 ... or 10) someone might write.
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    Is total depravity (radical corruption) a biblical teaching?

    It has taken me about a month each time I read it.... and I have to admit that even now on this 4th run at it, I still am truly understanding only about 3/4 of it.
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    Is total depravity (radical corruption) a biblical teaching?

    Well, it is some 1,600+ pages of VERY difficult reading, so I couldn't just through out a few quotes. But, it is online (FREE) for anyone to download. Get it and read it. For starters, he referred to the opinions and thoughts of others who disagreed with him as "absurd" 286 times. And that...
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    Is total depravity (radical corruption) a biblical teaching?

    I don't think I ever mentioned Predestination, TULIP, or Calvinism at all. I said I read his premier work The Institutes of The Christian Religion..... (at the moment, I am in the midst of rereading it — [this will be four times, total]), and I find him to be much less of a man than I had once...
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    Is total depravity (radical corruption) a biblical teaching?

    As I said, when you read straight from his own books, you are reading no one's words but Calvin's.
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    Is total depravity (radical corruption) a biblical teaching?

    You can find the full translation of all of his works online in several places. The sites are pure Reformed, BTW.
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    Is total depravity (radical corruption) a biblical teaching?

    I had no idea what kind of an arrogant, hateful person Calvin was until I read his very own words in The Institutes for the first time.
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    Just saying, Hi.

    Basically, all good things.
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    Just saying, Hi.

    Hi. Been hearing a lot about this place, so I thought I would come take a look.