Originally Posted by AllToHim
Before we are saved, does God relate to all individual men and women as if they were neutral, objective, rational beings, much like judges, who are to judge the pros and cons of accepting God's offer of salvation before they come to faith?

There is a very large part of the Church today who reject the clear teaching of Gods Word on original sin and insist that each person has free will or the capacity to choose or reject the truth of the Gospel.

But this is not what the Bible (God's inspired Word) teaches. Scripture teaches that unless a person is regenerated by the work of the person of the Holy Spirit, then that person has absolutely no desire to know and understand God's truth.

But this is of course a very hard part of Gods truth for people to understand and accept, especially Americans who are all about "free will."

Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. - Galatians 2:16