[Sans-Culotte]

Isn’t that the path for belief for many?

I don't mean someone who goes "to check it out" and eventually becomes a believer. I mean guys like Bishop Spong who flat-out did not believe that Christ rose from the dead; and yet he was a bishop.

[sr4402]

That's why it is essential to believe in the Total Depravity of Man. That mankind is Spiritually Dead due to the fall.

If one does not see how bad the fall was for them, then they cannot appreciate what God has done for them and their calling by Him.