Really? No. Question: can someone who is physically dead be convinced into making themselves physically alive? Answer: no.
Same thing with the spiritually dead - they can't make themselves alive spiritually: it has to be given externally.
Same thing with the spiritually dead - they can't make themselves alive spiritually: it has to be given externally.
The biblical definition of physical death is found in James 2:26 - As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
So "death" refers to separation. In the physical sense, the separation is soul from body.
In the spiritual sense, the separation is the person from God. That's spiritual death.
A spiritually dead person THINKS, ACTS, SPEAKS. A physically dead person doesn't do anything. There is no parallel about function.
But you are trying to compare the relate the 2, which CAN'T be done.
That's why it is called dead in sin: dead is dead, life is life
- the physically and spiritually dead cannot give life unto themselves.
So, the spiritually dead cannot spiritually hear or trust in Christ of themselves.
Rom 10:9 says man believes from the heart. Believing in Christ means to believe in or TRUST IN the work of Christ on the cross on your behalf, and trusting that Christ WILL save those who to believe or trust in Him.
Over the years, I've read a number of articles in magazines such as Time, Newsweek, etc where the writer was commenting on religion and would accurately explain the gospel ALL THE WHILE not believing it.
So your conclusion is wrong on the evidence of unbelievers who can accurately describe the gospel message even while rejecting it as truth.
They must be given spiritual life and from that comes hearing and faith.
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