The so-called "free-will" of man being the determining cause of regeneration is at the heart of all false doctrine. The supremacy of the natural will is the delusional dream of the demented mind of depravity. There is not one verse or context of Holy Writ that even suggests man is empowered with an ability to move himself to Spiritual life or has a natural desire for the True and Living God.

The will of the flesh is the god of the flesh. Man's natural ungodly will is concerned with and in bondage to self in three areas which constitute the whole man - "For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world" 1John 2:16. Man's will is only functional in the realm in which it is in captivity, and that is the realm of spiritual death and darkness. Man's spiritual demise forbids him to move to the Light and to Life - "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil" John 3:19; "And ye will not come to Me, that ye might have life" John 5:40. Spiritual birth, or regeneration, is not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God .