No person can come to Christ by their own freewill !

[Dave...]

Eph 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

GOD made us alive.
GOD DID IT; we did not exercise our free will and choose it ... we were "dead".


Eph 2:8 -9 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

Our "salvation" is a gift of God ... not a free choice of man.
It is NOT of ourselves ... we do NOT freely choose to believe, because that would be OF OURSELVES and this is NOT of ourselves.

See your bias.

We enter into that grace by faith (Romans 5:1-2), thus "through" faith Ephesians 2:. The life begins when we receive the Spirit of God. Made alive together with Christ happens when we receive the Holy Spirit. With the Spirit, we are His, without the Spirit, we are not (Romans 8:9-11). The Spirit is given as a result of faith (Gal. 3:2-3). The life spoken of is all a gift from God, it's from the Spirit, thus it is not of the flesh.