LZ Granderson: It is pastoral cruelty to deny the reality of sin. He says there are liberal and fundamentalist versions of Pelagianism. They're both basically Pelagians, but they're coming at it from a different angle," he says. LZ: If we just can get the right laws passed and can have the wind of history in our sails, we can make this a wonderful place to live.
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.