Justin Peters on Original sin & the human will
Will in bondage; needs sovereign grace to be freed
Sinners are totally depraved, meaning that, left to his own fallen nature, man has no inherent ability to save himself or even to seek after God.
THE POSITION
Total depravity in the full sense: Adam's fallen state is transmitted to all, and fallen man has no inherent ability either to save himself or to seek God. Depravity is stated as the reason salvation must be monergistic, so it is load-bearing rather than decorative — the inability comes first and grace alone follows from it.
10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. 11 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
17 OTHERS HOLD THIS
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Discernment evangelist whose Clouds Without Water seminar — grown from his Th.M. thesis on Benny Hinn — is the best-known evangelical critique of the Word of Faith movement, and since 2026 senior pastor of a church plant outside Billings, Montana.
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"Justin Peters on Original sin & the human will", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/peters/original-sin (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/peters/original-sin).