totally depraved—utterly sunk in sin and morally bankrupt—fulfill any responsibility at all in the matter of his own salvation? Man, to be sure, is totally depraved. Before God he is wholly corrupt, utterly vile and filthy, steeped in sin and undone. But as has often been pointed out, total depravity in man does not mean his total inability. Dr. James Orr, the noted Scotch Presbyterian, said on this: “The doctrine in question is, indeed, misunderstood when the adjective ‘total’ is held to imply that
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