Matthew Stuckey here from Verity Baptist Manila, and I'm bringing you a video on the topic
of total depravity. And Calvinists have this doctrine of total depravity, which is a false
doctrine. And one thing they talk about is this, that before a person becomes a child
of God, they are capable of the worst sins imaginable. For example, pedophilia or being
a serial killer. And they say that's normal and part of our flesh. But the Bible talks
about certain sins that are common to man, and being a pedophile is not something that's
common to man. It's not something a normal person desires. Now we just talked about the
reprobate doctrine in the last video, but I just want to focus on this idea where they
think that somebody, just your normal everyday person, could easily become a serial killer
or a pedophile, and it's normal in their nature. That's not what the Bible teaches though.
The Bible very clearly teaches only a small percentage of people are a child of the devil.
And those people are capable of the worst sins imaginable, but the normal person out
there that's unsaved, they're not totally depraved, and they're not capable of the worst
of the worst sins, like being a pedophile. That's not a sin that's common to man. It's
not a sin that a normal person would desire or think about. It's somebody with a twisted
mind, someone who's a reprobate, a child of the devil. But that is not your normal everyday
person. And when you have people out here that teach this doctrine that everybody's
a child of the devil, they're basically saying that before God regenerated them, they had
the mind and the desires of, you know, they could easily be a pedophile or a serial killer.
And it's like, I wonder about that person then that has that sick and twisted mind that
would say that, because I'm sorry, I don't have the desires, I've never had the desires
of being a serial killer or a pedophile. That's someone who's been given over to a reprobate
guy and their mind and consciousness defiled. So the Bible does not teach that your normal
everyday person is capable of the worst of the worst sins. It teaches that there's certain
sins that are common to man, which are most sins. You know, even some bad sins like adultery
or murder, people get angry, people get envious and things like that that could lead them
to terrible sins. But no normal person has the desires of being a pedophile or something
like that. That's not normal. And so what Calvinists say when they say we're capable
of the worst possible sins, most people know that's not part of the normal desires. Their
mind and conscious is not defiled. Only a small percentage of people. Thank you and
God bless.