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Question 4 You....
What's your username on Wikipedia, just out of curiosity? Mine's the same one as it is on CreationWiki. I looked up "Temlakos" and the profile didn't match yours. '''<font color="#FFCC00">Scorp</font><font color="#773300">ion</font>'''<sup>[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]]</sup> 19:32, 16 April 2007 (EDT)
What's your username on Wikipedia, just out of curiosity? Mine's the same one as it is on CreationWiki. I looked up "Temlakos" and the profile didn't match yours. '''<font color="#FFCC00">Scorp</font><font color="#773300">ion</font>'''<sup>[[User_Talk:Scorpion|Tell me what you think]]</sup> 19:32, 16 April 2007 (EDT)
:Believe it or not, it ''is'' Temlakos. The trouble is that I have little or no control over my userpage on Wikipedia. But here and on CreationWiki, "a user's user page is his castle."--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 19:41, 16 April 2007 (EDT)
:Believe it or not, it ''is'' Temlakos. The trouble is that I have little or no control over my userpage on Wikipedia. But here and on CreationWiki, "a user's user page is his castle."--[[User:TerryH|TerryH]]<sup>[[User talk:TerryH|Talk]]</sup> 19:41, 16 April 2007 (EDT)
== Question 4 You.... ==
Does this ring a bell? I have had the quote saved for some time now, seeking an attribution!
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“The depravity of man is the one cardinal doctrine of Christianity which can be empirically demonstrated. The triune nature of the Godhead was revealed to us in Scripture. The incarnation of the Word of God in the person of Jesus was also revealed in the Bible. But the sin of man is revealed to us every day in the newspapers, every day at work, and every day in each sinner's heart and mind.
But even though the presence of sin may be demonstrated in this way, the nature of it had to be revealed in the Scripture. This is because, being sinners, we want to heal the wound lightly. We do not want to understand the gravity of our situation. But before we can understand the good news of God's complete salvation in Christ, we must first comprehend our complete ruin in Adam.
The Bible does not teach that men are sick in sin; it teaches that they are dead in sin. "And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked. . ." (Eph. 2:1-2). The minister of the gospel does not come into a hospital ward with the mission of persuading the patients to take the medicine. He has been brought by the Spirit of God to an impossible situation; he has been commissioned to preach in the graveyard. The result of Spirit-empowered preaching is not recovery from illness, but rather resurrection. "And He said to me, 'Son of man, can these bones live?' So I answered, 'O Lord God, you know.' Again He said to me, 'Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, "O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!"'" (Ez. 37:3-4).
One of our generation's principal heresies is the belief that deep down "I could decide for God." But the Bible teaches that ruin and misery mark our paths, and that we do not know the way of peace. In Adam we all died, and it is only through Christ we can be made alive. But mark it well: we do not help Christ raise us. When Lazarus was in the grave, he was not thinking about the miracle he and Jesus were about to do. As dead men, we cannot do anything pleasing to God. We cannot contribute to our own salvation at all. We must repent, but we cannot. We must believe, but we cannot. We must hate our sin, but we love it. We must love God, but we hate Him. Wretched men! “
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