lol. And the Arminian spends his life in a futile attempt to prove Scripture and Calvin wrong.
The Arminian thinks men are merely ill, rather than dead in sin unless and until God regenerates them to know the things of God.
Which, of course, devolves the meaning of grace into simply a booster seat and not the power and intent and purpose and glory of the Triune God.
Lazarus was dead And he was brought back to life by the will and purpose and ability of Christ alone.
Lazarus was brought back to life so those who witnessed might BELIEVE, and also in response to his sisters’ faith.
The Prodigal Son was ‘dead’, but he repented “when he came to himself”, not when the father kidnapped him.