I never asked you about Adam and Eve.
I asked you about Noah.
Do you believe Noah was totally depraved?
The scripture says Noah became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
That doesn’t sound like Noah was totally depraved to me.
Could you explain why you believe Noah was totally depraved when the scripture says he was the heir of the righteousness which is according to faith?
I think that what is causing you problems is because the name “total depravity” is causeing you to have wrong ideas about what is meant.
IMHO, you are equating Total Depravity concerning Noah to those who were in Genesis 6 whoc were continuelly doing evil things.
I think that you need to understand tha Total depravity is a
theological term describing humanity’s moral and spiritual condition as a result of the Fall and originated with John Calvin.
It indicates that every part of our nature-mind, will, emotions, and body-has been affected by sin. It does not mean that all people are going around doing evil sins all of the time.
It does not mean every individual is as wicked as possible at all times, but that every individual has the ability to sin because we are all sinners.
Now......Did Noah get drunk and lay around naked?
Paul started in Romans and where the doctrines of grace truly begin.
Brother, do you realize that until we realize what a wretched person we truly are, and what an offense our depravity is in the holy sight of God, we will not can feel nothing in response to the atoning death of God’s Son.
You do not seem to be able to understand that without a quickened awareness of our depravity, we are Pharisees at best, though most of us are far worse. The best we can approach is a religious performance that brings glory to us and leaves us looking down on everybody else, just the way many Christians today look down on the rest of society, the Pharisee gazing down on the abortion doctor and the homosexual.
