"Original sin, if you get that one wrong, everything else falls apart," he says. "We can downplay the guilt we should have and then upstage the guilt of everyone else who's not a Christian" The Bible itself doesn't condemn non-Christians for being self-righteous, but it does say they never had a single good thought or emotion in their lives,. He adds: 'There really is a worth and dignity to human work'
Many churches preach that your biggest problem is that you’re not living your best life now. Rather than calling people to repentance, they call them to “try harder, do better” so that they can be fulfilled, healthy, and happy. Reformed theology provides a doctrine to help counter this wrong diagnosis of our true problem: total depravity. But sometimes, this doctrine sounds much more like “utter depravity,” leaving nothing good or redeemable about humanity. In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, and Bob Hiller consider how we hold total depravity in tension with the goodness of humanity.