A Mere 40 Point-by-Point Disputation on the Rejection of Jesus Christ by Mankind’s Cosmic Rebellious Treason Through a Totally Depraved Nature Regarding God the Son, the only Incarnate Despised Lamb of God

"...but repays those who hate Him to their faces, to destroy them; He will not delay with him who hates Him, He will repay him to his face" (Deut. 7:10 NASB).

Dr. Mike Petillo

"Objection is sometimes made to the doctrine of total depravity.  If men turn away from God in anger, I can understand it.  If men turn aside form God in justice, I can understand it.  But when they so hate God that they will not even have his salvation, when they refuse pardon through the precious blood of Christ, when they will sooner be damned than reconciled to God, this shows that their heart is desperately wicked.  The cross rejected is the clearest proof of the heart depraved." (C.H. Spurgeon).

1.     The original sin and total depravity of man has caused him to reject God (1 Sam 8:7).

2.     Sinners reject God's holy Word (1 Sam 15:23, 26).

3.     Sinners reject God's knowledge (Hos. 4:6).  If a sinner stumbles at one point of the law, all of it is broken.  The sinner hates the perfect law of God, how much more the sinless Son of God by his sinful nature bound to Satan?

4.     Sinners reject Jesus Christ (M k 8:31).  Sinners want to add relics, statues, and icons to the divine humility of God.

5.     God rejects the unbeliever who is not born of God's Spirit and Word (Jn 12:48).

6.     God rejects the reprobate (Heb. 12:17).

7.     Do you add something to the necessity and sufficiency of the grace of God alone that is His perfect life and death of Christ alone for how someone is right with a holy God?  If you have, you know nothing of grace.

8.     Sinners hate that Jesus Christ is the set apart Anointed One.

9.     Sinners hate that God the Son pre-existed before His birth in Old Testament history (Ps. 2:7).

10. Sinners hate that Jesus Christ confirmed His self-existent pre-existence (Jn 8:58).

11. The apostle Paul proclaimed the eternal pre-existence of Jesus Christ (Col. 1:15-19).

12. Sinners hate the birth of Jesus Christ that was historically and prophetically predicted (Is. 7:14).

13. Sinners hate the birth of Jesus that was fulfilled (Mt 1:18-25).

14. Sinners hate the birth of Jesus that was in the fullness of time (Gal 4:4).

15. Sinners hate the all-exclusiveness of Jesus Christ in His sovereign intention at the agony and glory of His Cross to save His people alone from every tribe, tongue, people and nation (not every single person but whomsoever He chooses in His mercy not of works).

16. Sinners hate that justification is by faith alone, because they want to add their miserable and worthless garments of filth to the matchless robes of Jesus Christ (the spotless Lamb of God).

17. Sinners hate the deity of Jesus Christ (Is. 9:6).

18. Sinners hate the testimony of Jesus about Himself that He is Jehovah (Jn 20:28, 29).

19. Sinners hate the testimony of witnesses about the deity of Christ (Jn 1:1, 14, 18).

20. Sinners hate the testimony of the apostles about the deity of Christ (Rom 9:5; Heb 1:5).

21. Sinners hate that Jesus is all-powerful (Mt 28:19).

22. Sinners hate that Jesus is all-knowing (Col 2:8).

23. Sinners hate the omnipresence of Jesus (Mt 18:20).

24. Sinners hate the eternity of Jesus (Jn 1:1, 2, 15).

25. Sinners hate the foretold humanity of Jesus (Gen. 3:15; 1 Cor 15:45-47).

26. Sinners hate that God became man in Jesus Christ alone (Jn 1:14; Heb 2:9-18).

27. Sinners hate Jesus as the seed of the woman (Gal 4:4).

28. Sinners hate that Jesus is superlatively holy (Lk 1:35).

29. Sinners hate that Jesus is righteous (Is. 53:11).

30. Sinners hate that Jesus is just (Zech 9:9).

31. Sinners hate that Jesus is guileless (1 Pet 1:19).

32. Sinners hate that Jesus is sinless (2 Cor 5:21).

33. Sinners hate that Jesus is spotless (1 Pet 1:19).

34. Sinners hate that Jesus is forgiving (Lk 23:34).

35. Jesus saves sinners (Lk 19:10) but sinners despise this by nature.

36. Sinners hate that Jesus destroyed the works of the devil (1 Jn 3:8).

37. Sinners hate the worship of Jesus Christ (Jn 5:13-15).

38. Sinners hate that spiritual salvation is through Christ alone for how someone is right with God because depraved people want their own way of salvation to add to the glorified perfection of the unified merits of Jesus Christ alone.

39. Depraved sinners hate the contentment of the completeness of Scripture alone because they want more than what God has provided.

40. Corrupt sinners want to add to the glory of Christ alone through the Virgin Mary and the saints to win redemptive satisfaction.  That is, they hate the all-exclusive supremacy of the glory of God alone.  

    Jesus, keep me near the cross;
There a precious fountain,
Free to all—a healing stream—
Flows from Calvary's mountain.
In the cross, in the cross,
Be my glory ever;
Till my raptured soul shall find
Rest beyond the river.
Near the cross, a trembling soul,
Love and mercy found me;
There the bright and morning star
Shed its beams around me.
Near the cross! O Lamb of God,
Bring its scenes before me;
Help me walk from day to day
With its shadow o'er me.
Near the cross I'll watch and wait,
Hoping, trusting ever,
Till I reach the golden strand
Just beyond the river.  (TH, 704).