Genesis 3:6-19

Depravity of Man: refers both to the damaged relationship between God and humans and to the corruption of human nature such that there is within every human an ongoing tendency to sin.

It's out of fear we'll not appear relevant. It's pressure from the culture to not speak anything negative. I think we've begun to deny hell. There's an assumption that everybody's going to make it to heaven somehow. The soft sell on hell reflects an increasingly market-conscious approach. When you're trying to market Jesus, sometimes there's a tendency to mute traditional Christian symbols, difficult doctrines are left by the wayside. What Happened to Hell?: Greg Garrison, Charlotte Observer, August 8, 2009.

"Forgiveness flounders because I exclude my enemy from the community of humans even as I exclude myself from the community of sinners.”

Miroslav Volf: Exclusion and Embrace, Page 124

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins. Ephesians 2:1

1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts.

1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts.

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.

Galatians 5:16-17

“Posse non Peccare” = Able not to sin

“But you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die." Genesis 2:17

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men.

Romans 5:12

“Posse non Peccare = Able not to sin“Non Posse non Peccare” = Not Able not to sin

The inability not to sin does not refer primarily to outward acts. There are many unbelievers who out of fear, conscience, pride, lust, worldly ambition, etc. will not only refrain from outward sin but actually practice a "form of godliness". But nothing they do in thought, word or deed is done out of a loving affection for God in Christ but is ultimately done to meet their needs. Ray McLaughlin

1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins

“Posse non Peccare” = Able not to sin“Non Posse non Peccare” = Not Able not to sin“Posse non Peccare” = Able not to sin

SIMUL IUSTUS ET PECCATOR “Simultaneously Righteous and Sinful”

I believe in God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; he descended to the dead. On the third day he rose again; he ascended into heaven, he is seated at the right hand of the Father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.