Man on his own is wholly unable to choose God.
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This is not what Arminius said. His intent was to be consistent with both the Reformed confessions and the Church Fathers. As a result, mankind was deprived of the perfection which would have allowed us to remain righteous. He saw original sin primarily as a deprivation, i.e. as an absence of something that would have been necessary to give us the ability to be righteous. We still have free will of a sort, but not one that does us any good for salvation.