This "deep sleep" was an additional layer to what they, along with nearly all other humans are born with . . . a Sinful Nature. We know that the Jews were just as corrupt as the Gentiles, proven by how they were under the Law of Moses. Any Jew who has been Purified by Christ [had been] set free of the Law of Moses, for they were set apart from the Law.
Therefore, the Jews could no more obey even without the added layer of "deep sleep." They, like all humans born of a woman's water, were born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward, as the Scripture states. We know that even children are born under this Curse, for we see many of them born deceased, as well as severely deformed and disabled, something I have witnessed in my own family.
This Curse . . . it is the Purpose of Christ, at least during His First Advent. To Redeem leads us to Christ's Work . . . and this is where "christians" begin their great divide. There are very few Christians in the world who have even considered to think about the entire lot of Spiritual Work of the Father, Son, and Spirit. And because Christians essentially deny the Spiritual Work of Christ, they couldn't possibly agree with the Effect of Christ and His Holy Work.
And yes, this all ties is perfectly with what this thread is about, and why I believe that there is something that we are missing that makes the opening verses logical and reasonable, for that is the kind of God we have.
“This "deep sleep" was an additional layer to what they, along with nearly all other humans are born with . . . a Sinful Nature”
the nature of good and evil that we inherited from Adam and Eve the first sinners ? No that’s not the soirit sleep God put upon israel
it’s the reason he put that upon them thise uncircumcised hearts of rebellion and idolatry . Because of the sins they committed they were never unable they were unwilling
“You weren’t willing to come to God “ it was never beyond then it was a corruption of thier will by the forbidden knowledge in the beginning
“For
this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
It is
not in heaven,
that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
But
the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
But
if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:”
Deuteronomy 30:11-19
it wasn’t that they weren’t able or God prevented then it was that they freely rejected him of a corrupted Will a sinful and corrupt nature inherited from mankind’s natural mother and father.
seven Adam and Eve rejected his word chose the serpents word and the curse that came with it. God never made Adam inherantly evil , he never willed that Adam eat the fruit or made Adam eat the fruit
he warned him not to do it and placed him in Eden with free Will and blessing and dominion and a purpose to work the garden
adam instead followed eves word who followed the serpents word that was contrary to what God said to them “
you will surely die if you eat the fruit “
…”
you will not surely die if you eat the fruit God knows it will make you as gods knowing good and evil “
it was always a choice to believe God and live and have a relationship with him with his presence with us or follow the contrary word we hear telling us the opposite and claiming it’s truth
Adam and Eve weren’t unable they rejected what thier Creator and Lord and the one who blessed and chose them and gave them dominion upon earth said to them
and accepted what the subtle and crafty serpent said in order to kill and curse them by Gods word. And cause of them to eat of the knowledge of good and evil mixed together that would certainly cause thier deaths
Ehat God had told then would have kept them safe and alive and blessed and with him . What Satan told them got them cursed and exiled from Eden and his presence they had two forms of o formation opposed and they chose the wrong one
Its always been God telling man the truth to warn us of evil since then since the first born man he tells us what is the right way to go and we do the opposite
“And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
And
Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that
Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.”
Genesis 4:6-8 KJV
a instead of solving the issue through repentance and doing what is right like God told him now cains filled with both good and evil and again he chooses the evil influence and kills his brother to solve the favoritism he has wrongly perceived. And again cain after doing this is exiled from Gods people not because God forced him to reject what he told him but because cain loved the evil in him rather than the good , the flesh rather than the spirit so he chose being corrupt
seven generations into mankind ends the thought that man is inheriantly evil and can’t obey because Enoch walks with God and never dies but instead is translated into Gods eternal kingdom as we find out in Hebrews 11 having
obtained a good report from God while he lived being saved by faith having walked with God as Christian’s are called to do
also men like Noah and Abraham who obeyed God men like Daniel and job who obeyed God and no fault eas found even later they are known as
three righteous men who could deliver thier own souls
Noah Daniel and job that is mankknd is not incapable of repentance and obedience to God we never have been it was satans lie that we swallowed “ your all not able To obey God and live your just sinners you can’t change “
The gospel annhialates that theory showing us that what makes slaves of men , is the lies of our enemy on the world that oppose his truth it’s all about our belief what we hear and believe becomes our path we need Jesus to be our path
what your saying has merit don’t get me wrong but the gospel changes everything for believers by changing thier
perceptions of themselves the world and of God thier Heavenly Father and his Will for them and his provisions for them to be made free in truth 
