Psalm 14:3
3 They are all gone aside, [cuwr] they are all together [yachad] become filthy: ['alach]
there is none that doeth [`asah] good, [towb] no, not one. ['echad] KJV-Interlinear
3 They
have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; There is no one who
does good, not even one. NASB
They, collectively is a
reference to humanity. And in one particular generation, as David was referring
to his own generation, so too, when the last generation comes onto the scene,
then there will be a time during those last several weeks and months of human
history that no person who remains alive will have any good that can be
discovered among them.
There will be a remnant
that is in hiding and under the protection of God, but as for all else, the overwhelming
population will be degenerate and evil to the core.
Likewise, all of humanity
is examined and all of humanity from Adam to the last person born, will be found
to be corrupt.
None among humanity is
good. None among humanity is
perfect. None among humanity has the wherewithal
to correct the injustices and flaws of themselves let alone all of human
history.
The opposite of good is
evil. If a thing is not good, then it is
bad. The opposite of acceptable is
unacceptable. And when a thing is
unacceptable, then it is … well, unacceptable.
That should be obvious.
Filthy means
defiled. All together means everyone,
with no exceptions.
Not even one, means just
that. All of humanity from Adam to the
last person who will ever be born, there will be not even one single person who
will be excluded from this category of depravity.
From the previous verse,
the children of men excludes Jesus Christ, who was not a child of a male
father. He was born of the seed of the
woman, excluding the man.
This then makes it clear
that there is no person among humanity that is perfect. There is not even one single person who is
not evil and filthy due to sin.
There is not one single person
born of the children of man, who is qualified to pay the price of sin and
death.
Quoted in Rom. 3:10-12, this
is the source of the principle of the universal depravity of man. Depravity means immorality, corruption,
wickedness, evil, decadence, degeneracy and so forth.
No good, means just that. There is no dignity of man, nothing that would
indicate that man is innocent in any fashion. There is nothing that would suggest
that man is fundamentally good, but just went astray accidentally.
There is no room for
meaning well, for sincerity, for good intensions. Absent good, there is nothing that can
mitigate mans depravity.
The doctrine of the total
depravity of man, describes the fallen state of humanity as a result of the
original sin and that the entire human race lacks the ability to remove that
fallen state, apart from the work and grace of God. The doctrine states that man is inclined to
serve their own will and desires while rejecting God. Even the good that man does, called human
good as well as religion, are insufficient and lacking in their intents, because
they originate from the imagination and invention of man and are done for mans
own ego and glory, not Gods glory.
Mans good is self-serving
and therefore a furtherance of mans depraved state.
Mans religion is likewise
self-serving and therefore a furtherance of mans attempt to remove his depraved
state, by excluding God.
Therefore, all human
good, and all human sin are faulty and unable to correct mans fallen state.
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