The Gospel to the Natural Man Is Road Kill

For the natural man, the gospel is road kill. They can be convinced by it and understand it but they cannot put their trust in it. And because they are detested by it, by nature, they cannot partake of it. That's the claim of calvinism. Not only is it not biblical, it is not what experience bears out. God has decreed. All things come by his decree. So we are decreed by god because of the fall. As a consequence of the fall, god has decreed so that we will be born in such a condition that it will smell of road kill to us,. We will hate it. And though we can mentally assent to