I know it's not God's fault.. So straight away your argument is mute!
Only those in Christ can obey.. Because, if your good works are outside of Christ they are just like filthy rags. No one seeks God, and mans heart is continually evil. So works will save no one. And most importantly following the law will never cause anyone to be saved (those who think so are only fooling themselves and follow another gospel).
Anyhow, on top of that the natural man is inherently evil not inherently good!. It's clear in scripture and all other theories have been condemned by the church throughout history, for very good reasons.
So ya pick the verses that talk about evil people, or Israel in apostasy and apply them to all men? Typical calvinism, quoting romans 3:10 without reading whats being quoted, where the psalms contrast RIGHTEOUS with the WICKED all the time. As does the entire bible.
This nobody ever does anything good its all filthy rags is easily debunked by Acts 10, where Cornelius a man WITHOUT FAITH in Christ is still consider a devout man, and his prayers are heard, he gets a revelation and Peter is sent to preach the Gospel to him.
God accepted his works looked like it? Infact they was called a "memorial offering" before God!
1 John 3:7 says whosoever does what is right is righteous. That closes that case.
John 5:28-29 also contrasts the righteous with the wicked, this one is still in the bible for some reason, the bible pundits havent expunged it yet, maybe its coming after some "more reliable" and "older" manuscripts are found.
Man is not born evil, or righteous. Man is born neutral and becomes a sinner when the first sin is commited, just like you're not a liar until you tell your first lie.
Genesis 3 details the fall, as ive quoted before and nothing of a sin nature, or inability to obey is mentioned, which is why Jews never have believed in the original sin. God aint playing when He says my commandments are not far from you to do em! Thats what God says, turn to me so ye may be healed, seek God, knock, God draws near to those who draw near to Him. With the way you guys interpret the bible you should literally throw out about 90% of the book, all that would be left would be a couple of verses from John and some from Paul's epistles.
Peter was inspired to write that many folks would TWIST Paul's letters and thats exactly what the unsystematic theology is! That heretic Luther even wanted hebrews and james out the bible, because it didnt fit his unsystematic theology! Called James an epistle of straw. The real straw is all the theology books written by these pundits that should be thrown in the trash heap of history where they belong.
Nobody believed this weird fatalistic gnostic manichean pagan stuff until Augustine came along. AND even Augustine defended free will to an extent, unlike John Calvin who states: "
By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which he determined with himself whatever he wished to happen with regard to every man. All are not created on equal terms, but some are preordained to eternal life, others to eternal damnation; and, accordingly, as each has been created for one or other of these ends, we say that he has been predestinated to life or to death."
I already know from you quoting Matthew Henry that nothing can convince you, no amount of inconsistensies in your views, no amount of bible verses and no amount of explanation. What a weird quote, this guy Matthew Henry just made most of the bible null and void. Its pointless to ask for faith, holiness and love if God has to create it in us? Pointless communication, God can just give us the faith love and holiness and keep it moving, no reason to ask people to do something they cant do. Waste of breath. Or is there something more sinister behind this according to yall? Something to damn the predestinated to destruction even further? Dare I even ask.