Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Does Ephesians 2:1-7 teach that a person cannot respond to God until they are regenerated? That is one of the results of the teaching of total depravity in Calvinism.

Calvinists see an unsaved person as dead--a spiritual corpse. They cannot respond until God regenerates them and gives them faith. However, I do not believe that is what this passage teaches. At the very least, we can interpret it in a different way.

Here are my four responses:

1. Spiritual death is different than physical death

2. Death does not mean the inability to do anything good

3. Death is separation (not inability to do anything)

4. Believers are also dead (and they can do things)

Read this article here: benhammond.org/can-a-dead-person-respond-to-the-gospel-ephesians-21-7

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