Commentary

He spoke for one hour and sixteen minutes. I listened and watched all of it, and that is the first sign of depravity. Not total depravity, as Calvin and his clan have taught, but surely partial depravity.

          I don’t have a problem with partial depravity. Mostly because I myself have generated enough evidence to convince, well, just about anybody. Partial depravity I can go with, the idea and experience that all of us and each of us is morally flawed, corrupt, even wicked. Sinner is the old Bible term and its worth keeping because it acknowledges what we all know.

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