Matthew Stuck here from Verity Baptist Manila and I'm providing you a video on the topic
of Calvinism, most specifically total depravity.
And one argument that Calvinists like to use to claim that we are totally depraved when
we're unbelievers and incapable of believing on Jesus Christ is the fact that they say
well the Bible teaches man is dead.
They say man is spiritually dead and others believe that man is not spiritually dead but
that man is just spiritually sick.
They'll use analogies like showing somebody who's in a coffin who's dead and they say
are you saying that that guy in a coffin is capable of doing anything?
Of course not.
He's dead.
Well it's nice that they like to use their nice philosophical and logical arguments but
here's why that doesn't make any sense whatsoever even from a logical standpoint.
You know yes man is spiritually dead.
The Bible teaches man is spiritually dead.
You say well how is he capable of believing if he's dead because a dead man can do nothing.
Look man is spiritually dead but it's our flesh that decides if we believe on Jesus
Christ when we hear the gospel.
So yes man is spiritually dead and the Bible says that when we believe on Jesus Christ
out of our own free will that our flesh has then God quickens us.
He makes us alive because of our decision to believe on Jesus Christ.
Obviously if I was a dead person I couldn't be up here making this video right now but
you know I'm not but a person who's who's spiritually dead but alive on earth is not
physically dead.
So they're still physically alive and capable of believing on Jesus Christ.
So this idea that well man is spiritually dead so he's incapable of believing on Jesus
Christ well that's just simply not the case because they're not physically dead and when
they hear the gospel their flesh their body they decide if they're going to believe on
Jesus Christ and when they believe on Jesus Christ the Bible says you know God quickens
them they're made alive they become a child of God.
Why?
Because in their flesh which is alive they have the ability to believe on Jesus Christ.
Anyways thank you and God bless.