What does the Bible teach about total depravity? Are we born lost?

1. TOTAL DEPRAVITY Jeremiah 13:23

4. Illustration supporters use Here is the picture they paint: A man is bound, gagged and chained to the floor in a burning building. He can do NOTHING to save himself. There is a man outside who rushes in and saves the man from the fire. The saved man can not say that he saved himself.

5. Problem with Illustration Here is a correction to the picture they paint: There is not just one man in the burning building. There are 2. There is a man outside chooses to save one and let the other die in the fire.

8. Scene on Judgment Day 1 Thessalonians 1:7-8 7 and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

9. Scene on Judgment Day Why am I lost? I could not believe like you commanded me to do. Why did you decide to save others and not save me? Why wasn't I changed and converted? What can't you love me?