Tag: Original sin

– PLUCKING THE PETALS OF JOHN CALVIN’S TULIP –

Supporters of Calvinism use a number of texts as support for the doctrine of Total Hereditary Depravity (THD). Space limits us from addressing every passage, but if there are questions about other texts, I am happy to have a private conversation on such.

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– PLUCKING THE PETALS OF JOHN CALVIN’S TULIP –

This first doctrine of Calvinism deals with man’s relationship to sin. The Bible tells us that all have sinned (Romans 3:23), but Calvin’s doctrine goes beyond this. Total Hereditary Depravity (THD) says that every person is born in sin; spiritually corrupt because of Adam’s sin. We read in the Westminster Confession of Faith that Adam and Eve:

…being the root of all mankind, the guilt of this sin was imputed, and the same death in sin and corrupted nature conveyed to all their posterity. (Westminster, Chapter VI)

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