You are saying there that the when the unregenerate mother loves and cares for her child, that God is not pleased with what she does. And you say that is the result of total depravity.
So now you add onto yourself bearing false witness. I never said that once. What I said, in a nutshell, is that we are incapable of saving ourselves, or providing any amount of work to save ourselves, because every part of our being has been corrupted by sin. It isn't that difficult to understand. That is a full stop, not add whatever false witness you want to add. It could also be considered Total Reprobation. We are all going to hell, unless God saves us. And if you cannot understand why, you need to go back and learn about who God is, and who we are, for you put yourself on par with God.
That is not true. According to total depravity, the unregenerate hasn't a clue about anything that the Holy Spirit has said. Total depravity says that it is only after having been born again can anyone understand any spiritual thing. If the unregenerate does not understand anything that the Holy Spirit says, then the Holy Spirit is not communicating anything to the unregenerate.
That is not true. We do not understand the spiritual message of the gospel unless the Holy Spirit regenerates us. That is not the same as being born again, as that comes after. Regeneration comes first. It is God, by the Holy Spirit, bringing our dead spirit back to life. And with that comes understanding of the gospel message, and response to the message. Without God's acting on us, we would never reach that point, because, as God said in prophecy (Thus saith the Lord), they have each gone their own way. The result? There are none righteous, no not one, none do good, and none seek after God. Again, because they have each gone their own way. If left to ourselves, we would each go our own way and no one would be saved.
I have "The Sovereignty of God" by A.W. Pink in my library. I have read and studied Pink's concept of the sovereignty of God. Pink's concept of the sovereignty is false; it is a joke. It makes God the author and perfector of sin.
Now since Pink used scripture (quite liberally) in his explanations, consider the possibility that he is right. That would mean that you just blasphemed God by saying He is a joke. Why? The sovereingty being written about by Pink is God's nature, so to say it is a joke is to say that of God's nature, which is God.
The final comment just shows that you do not understand what sin is. There is a reason why scripture says that if you break one law, you break them all. Sin is an archery term that means to miss the mark. You miss at all, you are a sinner. So God gave us a standard. Let's use the 10 commandments. The standard (One single standard) is all of the 10 commandments. So, if you bear false witness, you have broken one of the 10 commandments. However, all ten are the standard, therefore you missed them all. It's like those tests where, if you get one question wrong, you are done at that moment, you have failed. You don't get to answer any more questions because you have already failed. All those questions are marked wrong. It doesn't matter that you didn't get the opportunity to answer.
If the reason that all sin is because Adam sinned, then why did Adam sin?
That's an easy one. Love. (I'm going to let that one fry your brain.)
A sinner is what each and every human being, including Adam, becomes by sinning, that is, by disobeying God. You became a sinner because you disobeyed God, not because of Adam's disobeying God.
Ah, a pelagian. Fun. So how many people went to heaven perfect as God is perfect, without sin? Without being sinners? Did God lie through Paul when He said "For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God?" Did His prophecy fail when He said that there are none righteous, no not one?
Of course it does. It says that God has condemned the whole of mankind for what one man did. God does not, would not, do that.
Wow, you are quick to cast aspersion on God. Wow. There is absolutely no fear of God behind your eyes. Not one bit. God was clear through Paul when He said [again through Paul] that sin entered the world by one man, and by sin death. Why would God through Paul say that? Adam was the federal head of not just humanity, but of creation itself. God gave Adam dominion. So when Adam sinned, the whole creation fell into sin. That included all of humanity, and the rest of creation fell under the effect of sin. The corruption that came is what Paul speaks of when (again God through Paul) said that creation groans for redemption. The weight of the corruption of sin on creation itself.
I mean, I'm surprise you don't get it after this:
"14 Then the Lord God said to the serpent,
“Because you have done this,
Cursed are you more than all the livestock,
And more than any animal of the field;
On your belly you shall go,
And dust you shall eat
All the days of your life;
15 And I will [c]make enemies
Of you and the woman,
And of your [d]offspring and her [e]Descendant;
He shall [f]bruise you on the head,
And you shall bruise Him on the heel.”
16 To the woman He said,
“I will greatly multiply
Your pain [g]in childbirth,
In pain you shall deliver children;
Yet your desire will be for your husband,
And he shall rule over you.”
17 Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you;
With [h]hard labor you shall eat from it
All the days of your life.
18 Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you;
Yet you shall eat the
plants of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face
You shall eat bread,
Until you return to the ground,
Because from it you were taken;
For you are dust,
And to dust you shall return.”
20 Now the man named his wife [j]Eve,
because she was the mother of all the living. 21 And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.
All of the above for the woman and the man relates to all humanity. It also shows that Adam and Eve are the focal point for everything. And we are all affected because... of Adam and Eve.
If you don't have control, then there is no sin. Sin is lawlessness, sin is disobeying God. Disobedience is a choice. Do you have a choice in whether to steal, murder or rape? What sin have you committed that was not your choice?
Sin is an archery term for missing the standard/mark. It doesn't matter if you have control or not. (Perhaps that is just one thing you don't understand about the world God made. It is orderly and systematic because God is orderly and systematic. It is also unfair because logic is cold, uncaring, unempathic, and unsympathetic. Perhaps that why you don't agree with AW Pink's explanation of the sovereignty of God. It puts you under God's heel as a created being, not not on par with God. Not in control of your own destiny. It puts you under God's control as the supreme King and Sovereign of all creation.
The eyes that need to be opened are the eyes of those who think that God condemned the world because Adam ate the wrong fruit. And that is you. Who do you think God is?
The one who condemned all of creation because Adam failed to follow the one standard that God set for Adam. The only Law. The only rule. Adam missed the mark, and since Adam was the federal head of all creation, and of humanity, all of creation fell under Satan, and under the corruption of sin. (Which again, is the antithesis of God, since God is the standard.) While Satan has dominion over creation, that is, whatever God gave to Adam, God is still the Sovereign. Hence Satan has to ask God permission to do ANYTHING to Job. And when God sets limits, Satan can not step outside of them.
It is not my version of Calvinism. It is what Calvinism teaches. It is the OGRE that Calvinism says is God.
It is your understanding of Calvinism, and it is not what Calvinism teaches. I can say that even though I am not a Calvinist myself. I am calvinistic, in that the beliefs I have are in line with what Calvin taught, though not completely. It is the problem with name tag, systematized Christianity/beliefs. If you don't accept everything, including the negotiables, then you are not a believer. The only thing that matters are the non-negotiables.
You really need to consider what you say about God, because, if you happen to be wrong, then all you have left are all the evil things you said about God.
