"No, one who is 'dead to sin' is able to sin and does. However, this is a decidedly different matter than one who is 'dead IN sin', cf: Eph 2:1-3; Col 2:13; Rom 7:7-25. Being dead TO sin is a matter of sanctification vs. being dead IN sin is a matter of one's spiritual state, aka: unregenerate, natural, fallen, etc."

If I ask you why someone who is "dead in sin" cannot respond the gospel, you will say it is because they are "dead." And dead people don't respond. It has nothing to do with the word "in".

If I tell you that someone "dead to sin" can no longer sin, you argue that they can.

On one hand, you take "dead" to mean inability.

On the other, you take it to mean something other than inability.

I'll add another word to the list of duplicitous concepts, unless you'd like to explain how "dead" can mean two things.

Mike