Lord’s Day 3, Chapter 4: Total Depravity (3)

The question arises: what is the meaning of total depravity? The catechism answers: total depravity signifies "that we are wholly incapable of doing any good, and inclined to all evil?" But it may be expedient at this point to ask the further question: but what is good and what is evil? It seems a rather severe judgment that all men are wholly incapable of doing any good, and if we look about us in the world and judge of men as we come into contact with them, we are, perhaps, inclined to doubt...