What this man fails to understand is HOW a sinner is made willing (Ps 110:3) and able to love God. The issue is one of the soul, its disposition or inclination. The natural man, unregenerate, is wholly predisposed to hate God and to do all that is contrary to His holy law. (Gen 6:5; 8:21;, Jer 17:7; Eph 2:1-5; 4:17-19; et al) Thus the unregenerate person most naturally sins against God. However, when the Spirit makes the soul alive in regeneration (thus the meaning of the word), that person's nature is therefore predisposed, inclined to love God and to seek after righteousness. This he does most naturally of his own will since the will is the servant of one's inclinations; intellect and affections. God doesn't "force" one to love Him, but rather makes it possible for what was otherwise wholly impossible to do by enlivening the soul and creating a new nature within.

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In His grace,

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