Dei Gratia Part 2: An Ocean of SIn and The Depravity of Man 16 of 23

[fruitofspirit]

That dude definitely blows the rictor on my "creep-o-meter," like - worse than Marylin Manson because he's dressed up more like a human than a demon-zombie-freak. You know, I see the demon-zombie-freak comin' & I can easily cross to the other side of the road. But some "plain clothes officer" of satan is 10x more treacherous.

REALLY goes to show we shouldn't do what we "wilt."

[Optera34]

We indeed live in an ocean of sin and if God had not said you may come this far and no farther our sin would take us over like a tsunami. Total depravity does not mean that men are as depraved as they can be only that there nature is totaly depraved and self serving. The idea today is that men are generaly good however this could not be further from the truth. We all have the potential to be a aleist crowley if it were not for the common grace of God saying you may come this far and no further!

[Afrikitty]

The story of Aleister Crowley is a testimony to humankind that one does not have to be an Adolf Hilter or a Benito Mussolini in order to show the world the total depravity of the human heart.

Just living out your heart's desire, without wanting anything to do with God, is testimony enough of the evil within us all. Going beyond the pale of all things decent without killing millions of human beings or performing bizarre experiments on children is abject evil within itself.