Even if you're a hardcore Calvinist who believes in total depravity, you can still have compassion for the individual. To be specific: while the inability to ou

Even if you're a hardcore Calvinist who believes in total depravity, you can still have compassion for the individual. To be specific: while the inability to outwardly uphold the law is inherent, the gospel provides for love and compassion towards the fallen. Also, those notions of "sinfulness" are human constructs. Drug abuse, for example, as a moral failing, is a judgement. But drug addiction is not a moral failing, it is a disease that can be treated. There are many things we now know are treatable diseases that in the past were considered signs of moral failure: leprosy being an obvious one.