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 "Grace destroys the disposition to resist." This would suggest that when grace enters into the heart, sin can no longer remain. This is only true of complete saints, but we on earth do sin and often fall from grace. Therefore, the work of sanctification is not instant but a gradual reality.

The desire for that which is evil is a disordered desire for a lesser good over and above a greater good, such as placing the pleasure of food the proportionality of good nutrition, potentially resulting in gluttony. No one desires evil for the fact that it is evil, but out of distortion.

Total depravity depends on the inability of the human person to freely choose and accept the gift God offers and instead suggests He picks those whom He desires to save or not, which means that those who are not saved never truly had the option to choose, and this means it was not truly voluntary, which means they were not culpable of said rejection of grace. Sin is to choose evil, fundamentally, but if one has no choice it cannot be actually culpable sin. Total depravity has no basis, for the basis that might be reveals itself to be self-contradictory.