"Thus, a sinner who is 'dead in trespasses and sins', i.e., a natural man who has inherited the corruption of nature due to Adam's transgression (1/2 of Original Sin; the other half being the imputed guilt), has no ability to choose that which is good, to love God, to turn from his sin and love righteousness."

Is someone dead to sin unable to sin?

Mike

PS. Didn't Socrates address this in _Phaedrus_ w.r.t. chariot analogy? Free will is a philosophical concept - philosophy isn't constrained to the narrow world of Calvin and his intellectual adversaries.

Oh, and free will is in my Bible; what do you think a free will offering is?