But what about free will? Don’t people have the moral ability to choose? Do people have the power to choose what they want while they are dead in sin and trespasses? Of course they do. If all we mean by free will is man’s ability to make choices according to what he wants, then yes, we still have free will even though we’re spiritually dead. In fact, the problem with our spiritual death is not that we don’t have free will; it’s that our will is most free indeed to do whatever we want to do. And what we want is to flee as fast as we can from anything that has to do with the living Christ,
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