Because the human being with its free will can be found and analyzed in four distinct, dissimilar conditions, the present question is not how the will functioned as originally created before the fall, or what powers it exercises in external matters concerning temporal life before its conversion, or what kind of free will human beings will have in spiritual matters after they have been reborn and are being ruled by God’s Spirit, or what kind of free will they have have when the arise from the dead. Instead, the chief question is, purely and simply, what the mind and will of the unregenerated human being are able to do in conversion and rebirth on the basis of their own powers that remain after the fall, when God’s Word is proclaimed and God’s grace is offered to us.—FC SD II:2
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