By God's grace and help man is enabled to do good works with a free will. Thus man is a sinner in thought, word, and deed, and must be born again to be accepted of God. We believe that all human beings are born with a sinful nature, and in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, become sinners in thought and deed by choice. We believe that man fell from this original state by a voluntary act of disobedience. In this fall man suffered the immediate loss of his perfect relationship to God, making self the center of his life, by this act, he suffered spiritual death, and sin entered the world and death by sin, so that death passed upon all.
All doctrines received are parallel in thought to the statements made above.
Man, through the action of his free will, chose to disobey the command of God and through this disobedience became alienated from his Creator. His will is unable to acknowledge the presence of God and the regenerative action in his or her life is solely through the work of the Spirit. The ability to make the choice between good and evil so far as spiritual things are concerned comes only after regeneration. B. He retained, after the fall, the ability to acknowledge his lost state when revealed to him by the Holy Spirit. It is then up to him to make the choice to once again restore the fellowship with God, thus exercising a free will.