{"id":3328,"date":"2024-08-07T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2024-08-07T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:05:29","slug":"total-depravity-for-thee-but-not-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"Total depravity for thee, but not for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2839\" src=\"http:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dogwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dogwood.jpg 415w, https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/dogwood-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Me: Do you believe in Total Depravity?<\/p>\n<p>Pastor: Yes<\/p>\n<p>Me: How so? You claim you\u2019ve done no wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Pastor: You are totally depraved<\/p>\n<p>Me: I don\u2019t think it works like that<\/p>\n<p>Pastor: I\u2019ve done no wrong<\/p>\n<p>Me: So it\u2019s a case of \u201cDepravity for Thee, Not for Me? &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pastor: I\u2019m the real victim here\u00a0 &#8211;Emily Hyland @EKHyland on X (X.com) Aug. 4, 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EKHyland\/status\/1820191590759158006\">Depravity<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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&#8217;s own sins, to attack the people who say you&#8217;ve sinned against them,\u00a0 and to be the final arbiter of whether one sinned in the face of\u00a0 a multitude of evidence to the contrary, is to be self-deceived and is evidence of a seared conscience. \u00a0&#8220;If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.&#8221; 1 John 1:8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Me: Do you believe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-thought-for-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3336,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapelhillbiblechurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}