Did you read what I wrote about Rev. 22:17c & d? Those two statements are in the IMPERATIVE MOOD in the Greek, which means they are COMMANDS, not invitations. Mk. 1:15 is in the imperative mood; what saith the Scripture? "Repent ye, and believe the gospel." No, man does not have a propensity to sin, it is his nature to do nothing but to sin apart from God's grace. Man isn't totally depraved? What saith the Scriptures?
Gen. 6:5: "And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."
Gen. 8:21: "The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth."
Job 25:4-6: "How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman? Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?"
Psa. 10:4: "The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts."
Psa. 51:5: "Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me."
Jer. 13:23: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil."
Jer. 17:9: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?"
Lk. 16:31: "If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
Rom. 8:5-8: "For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is DEATH; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed CAN BE. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God."
I Cor. 12:3: "No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost."
Eph. 4:18-19: "Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness."
Col. 2:12-13: "Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses."
I Tim. 5:6: "But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth."
Unregenerate man can help others, but what saith the Scriptures regarding that (Tit. 1:15-16)?
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