Many Calvinists explain the human condition after the fall and before regeneration by the Holy Spirit as literally spiritually dead, basing that on Ephesians 2. In other words, for typical Calvinism, the natural, fallen human person is utterly incapable of even desiring God or the things of God. There is no moral ability (as opposed to a hypothetical natural ability that does not exist in spiritual matters) to reach out to God or to accept God’s offer of salvation. Everything that flows from the
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