There's the rub, then. Whosoever will. It is the will that is bound. It is the bound will that must be freed before it can call upon the name of the Lord.

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But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them because they are spiritually appraised (1st Corinthians 2:14, NASB, emphasis mine).
That is why the natural man must be given a new nature so he can understand, and he must be freed so that will call upon the name of the Lord. It necessarily follows that a will that is bound to sin and death cannot choose righteousness and life. The unregenerate, or natural, man must first be liberated, then he is free to call upon the Lord, having understood what is spiritually appraised.

Truly free (from Above, not from within),

Robin

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