Dr Rogers "In order to love God I have to have a choice. " Freewill!
Total Depravity is Total Inability is 'No Freewill'! Without freewill you are accusing our Holy and Righteous God of being the Author of sin, which is exactly what Calvinism/Reformed Theology does. Without freewill God is the One who is ordaining/causing us to do the very thing He hates the most, 'sin'.
The Five Points of the acrostic Calvinistic TULIP is built on Total Depravity. Dr. Rogers destroyed Calvinism in less than 3 minutes.
Not only does Calvinism teach Total Depravity, so does Islam.
"Both Good and Evil are from Allah"
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Freewill verses are throughout scripture.
Ezra 7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
1 Corinthians 7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
Adrian Pierce Rogers (September 12, 1931 November 15, 2005), was an American pastor, conservative, author, and a three-term president of the Southern Baptist Convention (1979-1980 and 1986-1988). It's been said that Dr. Adrian Rogers was one of the wisest men of our time and rightly so.
Rogers was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, and decided to enter into the Christian ministry at the age of nineteen. He graduated from Stetson University. Rogers was ordained by Northwood Baptist Church (now known as The Village Baptist Church) in West Palm Beach. In 1972, he became the senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, where he remained until March 2005. During this period, the church's membership grew from 9,000 to 27,000, and the church moved into a new megachurch facility.
Rogers was instrumental in the Southern Baptist denomination's shift towards the right that began in the late 1970s, as he was elected president of the denomination during a theological controversy within the denomination. He published eighteen books and is featured on the internationally-available radio and television program, Love Worth Finding, which is broadcast in English and Spanish.
In November 2005, Rogers contracted pneumonia of both lungs as a complication of colon cancer treatments, and died following a period of mechanical ventilation at the age of 74.
