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THE DEPRAVITY OF MAN

Below is an portion taken out of the Book called Systematic theology which entails seven pillars. , below is Pillar (2): The Depravity of Man:
1. In the beginning God created man in His image after His likeness. Gen. 1:26, 27. 
2. The Image of God is always God Himself in the creature or person. 
a. Jesus was the image of the invisible God. (Col. 1:15; 2 Cor. 4:4). 
b. God was in the body of Christ. (2Cor. 5:19; Col. 2:9). 
3. Thus man who was created with God – the Divine Nature – in him, was created sinfree. (Ps. 25:8; Eccl. 
7:29); Col. 3:10. 
4. The likeness that God created man in was like His person, having a body form like the Father and Son. 
(Gen. 1:26; Dan. 7:9, 13; Rev. 1:13-16). 
5. Man was created to glorify God which is to exalt Him to be God alone. (Isa. 43:1, 7; Ps. 29:2; Ps. 86:9, 
10). 
6. When man fell into sin, it was over claiming that there were Gods with God as Lucifer claimed in the 
beginning of his rebellion. (Isa. 14:12-14; Gen. 3:1-6). 
7. This sin however caused man to lose the divine nature or image of God from within him, he became Vacuous or emptied of God. This is the beginning of the Depravity of man. (Eph. 2:12; Rom. 1:28;
Eph 4:17,18.
8. The Depravity of Man as a result of sin is expressed in certain legitimate ways. 
a. Emptied of God (Vacuous state). 
b. Having the Carnal Mind or Idol Values in the heart 
c. Having the Body of Sins or Perverted Emotions. 
d. Having Evil Practices or Sinful Works. 
e. Having Sinful Flesh. 
i. Sinful Flesh is flesh infected with sin and flesh affected by sin, or only flesh affected by 
sin (as in the case of Jesus). 
ii. Sinful Flesh is flesh that has Infirmities. 
iii. Sinful Flesh is flesh that has Liabilities of perverted emotions flowing in it. 
f. Infirmities of the sinful flesh are weaknesses of the flesh affected by sin. 
i. They are bodily weaknesses of hunger, thirst, weariness and a weakened constitution. 
ii. They are also habits or moral weaknesses not necessarily practiced. 
9. On page (15) the figure (1) chart explains the Depravity of Man. 
10. It was Adam that made us sinners. Rom. 5:12, 19. 
11. Because, it was because of his original sinning in the Garden of Eden that Adam caused us to be alienated from God from the womb, or to be born without God. Ps. 51:5; Ps. 58:3; Isa. 48:8. 
12. Without God, creation becomes God to man, so that he naturally adopts idols in the mind. This is 12 
idol-values that is called, the thought of the flesh or the Carnal Mind. Eze. 14:3-5; Rom. 8:6-8. 
13. Since it is our minds that evoke feelings, emotions, or passions, with the Carnal mind in the unconvert￾ed, his perverted emotions (called the body of sins) flow gratifying him. Rom. 6:6, 12; Rom. 7:5, 8. 
14. Next follows works of sinning or sinful works. (Isa. 59:6-8; Mic. 7:2, 3; Gal. 5:19-21). 
15. When Adam sinned, his children received biological inheritances from him and also influence inher￾itances, so that, being without God, they inherited flesh infected by sin (no God within) and thus 
affected by sin (as infirmities). Rom. 5:12, 18, 19. 
16. Sinful man has sinful flesh infected with sin. Rom. 7:18, 8. 
17. But sinful flesh as our inheritance biologically is not sin, because it is flesh affected by sin, not infected 
with sin. Jesus had our sinful flesh, yet He was without sin. (Rom. 8:3; 1 Jn. 3:5). 
18. Sinful flesh itself is not sin; it is flesh that has infirmities (we call it neutral infirmities). These infirmi￾ties are like, hunger, weariness, thirst and a general weakened bodily constitution, in intellectual 
strength and muscular strength. (Rom. 8:26; Matt. 8:17; 2Cor. 12:5, 9). 
19. Infirmities are also moral infirmities, that is, moral weaknesses or habits that are not practiced. Habits 
are in those that are sinfree, but the habits are not practiced, but are dormant in the unconscious mind. 
While these habits are sinful, they are not sin to the person until he practices them. Heb. 4:15; Heb. 5:2. 
20. Sinful flesh is also flesh that has the liabilities of perverted emotions flowing in the body, but they are 
kept as liabilities and are not allowed to be removed from that category to become actualities. Rom. 
6:12. 
21. Jesus had human depravity in the fact that He had flesh depraved by sin which is sinful flesh, but this is 
not sin. (Rom. 8:3; Phil. 2:7; Heb. 2:14). 
22. Human Nature is made up of the following: 
i. Thoughts. 
ii. Emotions. 
iii. Flesh. 
23. To say the term sinful human nature is therefore to speak about the following: 
a. Thoughts infected with sin. Gen. 6:5 
b. Emotions, desires, passions directed by sin. Gen. 3:6. 
c. Thus flesh infected with sin. Rom. 7:18. 
24. But man can have sinfree human nature. This is: 
a. Thoughts without sin. (Ps. 119:11; Ps. 37:31). 
b. Emotions not directed by sin. Col. 2:11; Rom. 6:12. 
c. Sinful flesh yet without sin. (1Jn. 3:9; 1Jn. 5:18). 
25. Initially no man is righteous inherently. Rom. 3:9-19.

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