I find the Calvinist persuasion of total depravity intriguing…
Men are so dead in trespasses in sins that God must regenerate them in order for them to believe.
So were all the OT prophets, priests, patriarchs, and kings regenerate? How were they able to respond to God? What about John the Baptist, Simeon, and Cornelius?
Didn’t Jesus tell Nicodemus, “You must be born again”?
Didn’t Jesus say that though John the Baptist was the greatest prophet, the least in the Kingdom was greater than he (Luke 7)?
Thus, John was outside of the Kingdom, yet was able to respond to God (John 1:33).
The idea that God must regenerate us in order for us to respond to Him – to believe in Him – is wrong.
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