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not that you're as bad as possible, just that nothing in you escaped the damage.
means the calvinist doctrine that sin has corrupted every part of human nature, including the will, so people cannot choose god on their own.
from formalized in the five points of calvinism (the tulip acronym) drawn from augustine's reading of paul, especially romans 3, as a rebuttal to arminian claims about free will.
not utter depravityyou can still love your dog, apparently
tulip's tfirst letter of five, sets up the rest
targetthe will itself, not just behavior
rival viewarminianism says grace can be resisted