AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

“carnally minded” (Romans 8:5-7) — at enmity with God and incapable of
being subject to Him.
• “Haters of God” and “lovers of darkness.” (Romans 1:30; John 3:19)
• “Dead in our transgressions and sins” and “by nature children of wrath”
(Ephesians 2:1- 5) —without the life of God in our souls;
• “Slaves” to our sinful nature (Titus 3:3; John 8:34), captive to a “My will be
done” ethic and epistemology.
• With hearts that are so twisted with self-centeredness that out of them
come “evil thoughts, vulgar deeds, stealing, murder, unfaithfulness in
marriage, greed, meanness, deceit, indecency, envy, insults, pride and
foolishness.” (Mark 7:21, 22)
• ‘We have turned everyone to his own way’ (Isaiah 53:6), that even “the
thoughts and imaginations of our hearts are evil continually from our
youth” (Genesis 6:5; 8:21.)
5. A wise man once observed that the Bible doesn’t contain just theology—
God’s revelation of Himself. It’s also the LORD’s
______________________— God’s analysis of man. (Abraham Herschel)
"As it is written: 'There is none righteous, no, not one; There is none
who understands; There is none who seeks after God. They have
all turned aside; they have together become unprofitable; There is
none who does good, no, not one…Their throat is an open tomb;
with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of asps is
under their lips; whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Their feet are swift to shed blood; Destruction and misery are in
their ways; and the way of peace they have not known. There is no
fear of God before their eyes....” Romans 3:10-18 (see also Psalm 14: 1-4)
6. Dr. Steven Mansfield: We talk about free will a great deal but the fact
is that man’s will is ______________ by his own sinfulness. So there is
only a certain range that he is going to be able to choose within. He is not
able to choose all the best things, the highest things, the most godly
things because sin has bound his will.
7. Eric: The bottom line: the Calvinists saw that the remonstrance was
giving fallen man more _____________ than he deserved, and attributing
an ability that was simply not there. And they understood that how one
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