Matthew 23:27

[ReverendRV]

Matthew 23:27 BSB; Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

Is this a good Verse to prove Total Depravity?

 

[DialecticSkeptic]

It is consistent with the doctrine of total depravity, but it's not an effective proof-text because the critic can point out, "He was talking specifically about the scribes and Pharisees, not mankind generally."

 

[Eleanor]

Matthew 23:27 BSB; Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

Is this a good Verse to prove Total Depravity?

I like Ro 8:7-8.

 

[ReverendRV]

I like Ro 8:7-8.

I think the OP is easily answered by systematically stringing Verses together; such as, "There is no one who does Good, no not One"...

But I didn't want the Thread to be over that quickly. As far as the Reformed go? Sure; it's over...

 

[Arial]

Matthew 23:27 BSB; Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

Is this a good Verse to prove Total Depravity?

I think Eph 2:1-5 covers it.

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience---among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ---by grace you have been saved---and raise us up with him and death us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus--"