This date has been reserved for discussion about those attitudes and conducts that do not grow out of external temptation so much as from human nature.  Humanists often refer to it as flawed human nature.  Biblical theologians tend to refer to it as depravity found in human nature registered in births passed down through the generations.  This condition is that addressed in the redemption of Jesus Christ.  When resolved in the redemptive enterprise carried through by Jesus Christ and ministered to mankind by the Holy Spirit, we have the main thrust of the Christian gospel.  In this there appears practice of faith, prayer, righteousness, spiritual maturing (learning and application), culture, witness and the life of the Church.  Church, in this… Read more