John Piper on Original sin & the human will
Will in bondage; needs sovereign grace to be freed
THE POSITION
Total depravity; heavily indebted to Edwards.
WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONOne quotation, on spiritual-warfare, from a freely published Ask Pastor John episode, and copyright is not the reason the rest have none. This map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright, and the Sproul pass was built on freely published video rather than his books. Piper is in the same position: what is missing for the other ten positions is a primary-source pass, which nobody has run. They are established — well-attested accounts of his views, not checked against his own words — and they stay there until someone does the work.
1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in which you used to walk when you conformed to the ways of this world and of the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of disobedience. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Longtime pastor of Bethlehem Baptist, Minneapolis, and founder of Desiring God. Reformed soteriology combined with continuationism and historic premillennialism.
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"John Piper on Original sin & the human will", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/piper/original-sin (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/piper/original-sin).