Doctrines of Grace
sinners by representation
Romans 5:12
Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Romans 3:12
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Genesis 5:3
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, and after his image; and called his name Seth:
Sinners by nature
Psalm 51:5
Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Psalm 58:3
The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
Genesis 8:21
And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
Romans 7:14
For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
SINNERS BY PRACTICE
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.
1 John 1:10
If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Romans 8:6-8
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Genesis 6:5
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
CONCLUSION
Man in his natural state is not able to do anything to please God.
John 8:47
He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
1 Corinthians 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
John 10:26
But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION: the selection of individuals to eternal life based entirely on God’s sovereign choice, and not influenced by man.