Wesley Backwards

As mentioned before John Wesley believed man was depraved to the point he could not choose good. But this doesn't square with a comment from Isaiah nor comments from Paul, both inspired teachers.

Wesley

John Wesley

I believe that Adam, before his fall, had such freedom of will, that he might choose either good or evil; but that, since the fall, no child of man has a natural power to choose anything that is truly good. Yet I know (and who does not?) that man has still freedom of will in things of indifferent nature

but Paul writes by the Spirit

Rom 2:14  For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 

Emphasis mine

Man has a nature that can do good. Consider Christ, born a man.

Isaiah

Isa 7:15  Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 

Isa 7:16  For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings. 

This is inline with Irenaeus (Who is closest to the Apostles by date) who said infants had no evil inkling. This seems to say evil isn't born but evil thoughts come later. From our youth, not our birth.

"And again, who are they that have been saved and received the inheritance? Those, doubtless, who do believe God, and who have continued in His love; as did Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun, and innocent children, who have had no sense of evil." (Against Heresies, 4:28:3)

The idea Jesus was truly flesh and grew as other children. John Gill in his commentary actually used this verse to show Christ's human nature.

Isa 7:15  Butter and honey shall he eat..... As the Messiah Jesus no doubt did; since he was born in a land flowing with milk and honey, and in a time of plenty, being a time of general peace; so that this phrase points at the place where, and the time when, the Messiah should be born, as well as expresses the truth of his human nature, and the manner of his bringing up, which was in common with that of other children. חמאה signifies the "cream of milk", as well as "butter", as Jarchi, in Gen_18:8, observes; and milk and honey were common food for infants: 

that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good; meaning not knowledge of good and bad food, so as to choose the one, and refuse the other; but knowledge of moral good and evil; and this does not design the end of his eating butter and honey, as if that was in order to gain such knowledge, which have no such use and tendency; but the time until which he should live on such food; namely, until he was grown up, or come to years of discretion, when he could distinguish between good and evil; so that as the former phrase shows that he assumed a true body like ours, which was nourished with proper food; this that he assumed a reasonable soul, which, by degrees, grew and increased in wisdom and knowledge; see Luk_2:52. לדעתו should be rendered, "until he knows"; as לפרש in Lev_24:12 which the Chaldee paraphrase of Onkelos renders, "until it was declared to them"; and so the Targum here, 

"butter and honey shall he eat, while or before the child knows not, or until he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.''

One would say Christ was different, but we know from hundreds of passages man had the ability to attain knowledge and God preserved knowledge in the earth.

Pro 22:12  The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor. 

Faith only groups could say that Jesus was different, but that would identify them with anti-christ, denying Jesus came in the flesh and grew as we do.

2Jn 1:7  For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist. 

Even so there are many verses showing man choosing good.

Deu 30:19  I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: 

Jos 24:15  And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 

Isa 56:4  For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 

Psa 25:4  Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. 

Psa 25:5  Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day. 

Psa 25:12  What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. 

Faith only is built upon a careless statement.