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- The increasing inability to forge significant, loving relationships, culminating in alienation, worthlessness and helplessness.
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- The moral and spiritual illness of depravity describes the unhealthy, worthless direction life takes apart from God’s love. The opposite is Regeneration. Also called “the flesh” or “the old man” in scripture.
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Definition: The increasing inability to forge significant, loving relationships, culminating in alienation, worthlessness and helplessness.
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Clarifications: The moral and spiritual illness of depravity describes the unhealthy, worthless direction life takes apart from God’s love. The opposite is Regeneration. Also called “the flesh” or “the old man” in scripture.
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adokimos— depravity: not standing the test, rejected. depraved (1), disqualified (1), fail the test (2), rejected (1), unapproved (1), worthless (2) - NASB Greek-Hebrew Dictionary
ἀδόκιμοςb, ον: pertaining to having been proven worthless - ‘of no value, valueless, worth nothing” — Louw & Nida: NT Greek-English Lexicon
The word means: To fail the test; to be a reprobate; to be tested and found worthless; to be tested and disqualified and rejected; to be found unfit and disapproved; to be doomed and condemned to perdition—Practical Word Studies in the New Testament
Adokimos is an old adjective used of metals, coin, soil (Hebrews 6:8) and in a moral sense only by Paul in N.T. (1 Cor. 9:27; 2 Cor. 13:5–7; Romans 1:28; Titus 1:16; 2 Tim. 3:8)—Word Pictures in the New Testament
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Depravity as worthlessness
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They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed. - Titus 1:16 (NASB)
but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified. - 1 Corinthians 9:27
5 Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test? 6 But I trust that you will realize that we ourselves do not fail the test. 7 Now we pray to God that you do no wrong; not that we ourselves may appear approved, but that you may do what is right, even though we may appear unapproved. - 2 Corinthians 13:5–7
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, - Romans 1:28
Just as)Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. - 2 Timothy 3:8
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, - Romans 1:28
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