Me: Do you believe in Total Depravity?
Pastor: Yes
Me: How so? You claim you’ve done no wrong?
Pastor: You are totally depraved
Me: I don’t think it works like that
Pastor: I’ve done no wrong
Me: So it’s a case of “Depravity for Thee, Not for Me? ”
Pastor: I’m the real victim here –Emily Hyland @EKHyland on X (X.com) Aug. 4, 2024 Depravity
It’s not literally that blatant of course, but a pastor, like any person, can claim to believe in total depravity and acknowledge in the abstract that he is a sinner and maybe occasionally acknowledge a few minor sins. But to grossly minimize one’s own sins, to attack the people who say you’ve sinned against them, and to be the final arbiter of whether one sinned in the face of a multitude of evidence to the contrary, is to be self-deceived and is evidence of a seared conscience. “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” 1 John 1:8.
