In this sermon, which Apprising Ministries points you to as food for thought, Dr. John MacArthur begins:

salvation as a work of God is based on another doctrine, on another doctrine.  God must save us.  He must choose us, call us, regenerate us, justify us by His divine power because we are neither willing nor able to do it for ourselves.  And this takes us to what I’m going to call the doctrine of absolute inability.  I’ve never heard it called that but that serves my purpose to explain what we mean…

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