Two issues with Provisionism:
 
The first is that they deny total inability.
 
What actually happened to man in light of the Fall?
 
Answer: Man can respond positively to God’s appeal to be reconciled from their fallen condition.
 
But what is that condition? Are sinners judged because they are neutral? Can’t control their sin?
 
Does God’s decree to permit the Fall and have all humans born spiritually dead mean He is unjust to punish sinners for something beyond their control?
 
Second issue: What exactly happens in conversion or regeneration?
 
Is it a miraculous work of God inwardly that changes the mind, heart, and will of a spiritually dead sinner? Or is the grace in conversion merely the gospel appeal? In short, the gospel presentation is SUFFICIENT grace to enable a sinner to respond positively to Christ because he retains LFW.
 
Those are the two points of contention.
 
Now, let’s address the mischaracterization of Reformed theology with the statement that regeneration or conversion is an ONTOLOGICALLY change of nature that causes a person to trust Christ.
 
Does Reformed theology teach that regeneration is an ONTOLOGICAL change in human nature?
 
First, let’s define ontological. The word means a state of being or that which exists.
 
Leighton argues that regeneration actually changes a human's overall nature into something completely different from what it was before conversion. So, in regeneration, does a human being undergo a complete change from a sinful human being to another human being who is not sinful?
 
What actually happens in regeneration? Is it an ontological change of nature?
 
The short answer is NO

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