8. But are we so depraved that we are completely incapable of any good and prone to all evil?

Yes, 1) unless we are born again by the Spirit of God. 2)

1) That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. John 3:6.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts his heart were only evil continually. Gen. 6:5.

Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. Job. 14:4.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isa. 53:6.

2) Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3:5.

* For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. Gen. 8:21.

* Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. 2 Cor. 3:5.

* For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. Rom. 7:18.

* The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? Jer. 17:9.

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