Romans 3:11

The following blog post was originally published on February 27, 2015.—ed. Does an unregenerate man bear a spark of the divine that draws him to a relationship with God, or is he utterly lost in the total depravity of his sin nature? While that might seem like an obscure theological question, don’t dismiss it as …

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When it comes to man’s fallen nature, Scripture is clear about the depth and breadth of its defilement. The apostle Paul delivers a blunt assessment of man’s sinful corruption in his epistle to the Romans. As it is written, “There is none righteous, not even one; there is none who understands, there is none who …

Ray Comfort once told me that sinners seek after God in the same way a thief seeks after a policeman. That’s a colorful way of describing the fallen human condition, but it’s also biblically accurate. The apostle Paul put it succinctly: “There is none who seeks for God” (Romans 3:11). John MacArthur expands on this …

Quia isto articulo stante stat Ecclesia, ruente ruit Ecclesia. Martin Luther penned those Latin words to magnify the importance ofsola fide(the doctrine of justification by faith alone).[1]Roughly translated, Luther is saying, “If this article [of justification] stands, the church stands; if this article collapses, the church collapses.” Luther had good reason to place such weighty …

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The problem of sin isn’t fundamentally external. It’s most visible in our actions, but our actions are merely the manifestation of a corruption that comes from within. If we were using a medical metaphor, we might sayRomans 3:10–12includes a full examination of the sinner, beginning with a kind of spiritual MRI scan. This passage reveals …