You take Eph 2:3 and use it as a proof text
A "proof text" is a text which states the principle of its context.
Because it states the principle of the context, it is the best text to use.
that human beings are born objects of wrath.
And all you do is
object to the plain word of God in proof texts.
You do not address them, you merely offer your personal human reasoning against them.
Paul in writing Eph 2:3 uses the word "Phusis" which we have translated to "nature" in English.
Eph 2:3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
If Paul is referring to a "birth nature" and thus "natural inability to do anything but sin" then
why does Paul use the same word in Romans 2?
Because he
is referring to the "birth nature" in Ro 2.
Rom 2:14 For
when the Gentiles, which have not the law,
do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
Rom 2:15 Which shew the work of
the law written in their hearts,
their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another
God put in the
nature of man a moral code (natural law) and a conscience.
The
natural law is the law
written in the nature of humans.
Even animals have laws written in their natures, called instincts.
Ro 2:14-15 does not refer to the law given by
special revelation of God to Moses,
but to
natural law whereby even the pagans who know not God naturally
care for the sick and elderly, naturally honor parents, or naturally condemn adultery.
The
natural law also tells man there is a God (Ro 19-20).
But natural law tells man nothing of God's supernatural revelation of his divine law,
nor does it give unregenerate man the power to love and obey divine law.
If people by "nature" do evil how is it by the same "nature" they do good?
They do "good" by the natural law, but they do evil by the divine law,
because they do not glorify God nor give him thanks (Ro 1:21).
I assert that they don't.
I assert that our nature develops over time as a result of whether we obey God or not.
If we choose sin then we develop a sinful nature and if we yield ourselves to God then we develop a godly nature.
And what you assert, the NT denies in Ro 3:10, 4:5, 5:18, 8:7-8; Eph 2:3,
all of which you fail to directly deal with,
preferring your own human wisdom over the divine wisdom (1Co 1:20-22).
Elin you quote this verse too...
Rom 5:18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
So let me understand this. If Adams sin automatically condemns everyone that must mean that by the righteousness of Jesus the free gift justifies all men also.
I note that, again, you fail to deal directly with what the verse states:
all men are condemned because of the sin of Adam,
preferring instead to deflect to something else. . .your standard intellectually dishonest MO.
Yes, salvation is offered and available to all men.
There are none who sincerely desire and seek it that do not receive it.
And there are many who do neither, and do not receive it.
You say the New Testament is very clear.
Is this clear...
1Pe 2:21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
1Pe 2:22 Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
1Pe 2:23 Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:
1Pe 2:24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:
by whose stripes ye were healed.
I'll quote some of the verses before it so as to show the greater context which teaches that
Jesus left us an example that we follow in His footsteps.
An example which you must believe is impossible because everyone is born a sinner and thus totally disabled.
Only the born again who are enabled follow in Jesus footsteps.
And you still have not directly addressed Lk 11:48-51; Ro 3:10, 4:5, 5:18, 8:7-8; Eph 2:3. 