Verses on the God you are called to Believe in...

1. Human nature- Total Depravity - Top
   
   1. Jer. 17:9, "The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; who can understand it?"
   2. Mark 7:21-23, "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, ²²deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness. ²³"All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man."
   3. John 3:19, "And this is the judgment, that the light is come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their deeds were evil."
   4. John 8:34, "Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin."
   5. Rom. 3:10-12, "as it is written, “There is none righteous, not even one; ¹¹There is none who understands.  There is none who seeks for God; ¹²All have turned aside, together they have become useless; There is none who does good, There is not even one.”
   6. Rom. 5:6, "For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly."
   7. Rom. 6:20, "For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness."
   8. Rom. 7:18, "For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the wishing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not."
   9. Rom. 7:23, "but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind, and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members."
   10. 1 Cor. 2:14, "But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised."
       
       1. 1 Cor. 2:1-5, Paul did not come by the power of human wisdom, but the power of the Holy Spirit.
       2. 1 Cor. 2:6-9, Paul speaks God’s wisdom which the world does not understand.
       3. 1 Cor. 2:10, The Spirit of God reveals the sacred and spiritual things of God.
       4. 1 Cor. 2:11-12, Christians have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit of God, which is why the Christians know the things freely given from God. 
       5. 1 Cor. 2:13-14, "which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words. ¹⁴But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised."
          
          1. Therefore, 1 Cor. 2:14 is not saying that the natural man, the unregenerate person, cannot understand God's wisdom, it is also saying that they cannot understand because they do not have the Spirit of God.  This means that the unsaved cannot understand spiritual things because they do not have the Spirit of God.
   11. Eph. 2:1, "And you were dead in your trespasses and sins."
   12. Eph. 2:3, "Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others."
       
       1. In this verse "nature" is the Greek phusei.  It is the dative case (indirect object).  This means that the text is not saying that we are by nature children of wrath because we sin.  It is saying that we are by nature children of wrath.
   13. 1 Tim. 1:9, "Realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers."