“It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage.” – Martin Luther

“Likewise it is false that the will, left to itself (apart from grace), can choose to come to Christ (John 6:65), for it is not free, but in bondage … for “the devil has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God” (2 Cor 4:4) … and has “taken them captive to do his will.”(2 Tim 2:26) … and intrinsically “the natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.(1 Cor 2:14) because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God; for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so. (Rom 8:7) So there is “no one understands; no one seeks for God…. no not one. (Rom 3:11) “So then salvation “depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.” (Rom 9:16)”

– John Hendryx