I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

The Bible consistently denies free will.

I waited far too long, being optimistic rather than realistic. I also failed to do my homework

Guilt was imputed and corruption was conveyed

We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

What distinguishes the arid ages from the period of the Reformation, when nations were moved as they had not been since Paul preached in Ephesus, Corinth, and Rome, is the latter's fullness of knowledge of God's Word. To echo an early Reformation thought, when the ploughman and the garage attendant know the Bible as well as the theologian does, and know it better than some contemporary theologians, then the desired awakening shall have already occurred.