Faith precedes regeneration, and from experience also because I had to hear the Gospel first and foremost and then the Lord by His Spirit convicted me of sin causing me to see my sin the way he saw it which empowered and enabled me to repent and believe. Which led me to be born again or regenerated and we know that the Holy Spirit was sent to convict the whole world of sin and not just some John 16:8-9 which I believe has to work alongside the Body of Christ and the Great Commission, Romans 10 is also very important in all of this. And I think it's very important also to note that I had a praying mother that had prayed for me for 16 years prior to me being born again. She just went home to be with the Lord and her husband and her children at the age of 96 last year. After Jesus she's the love of my life.

 the moment Mankind ate from the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil they died spiritually meaning all of Adam and Eve's offspring died also especially in light of Genesis 5:3 where Adam procreated sons and daughters in his own image and no longer in God's image

 The moment our spirit is regenerated we have received the very same nature that Jesus was born with which is what caused us to be in Him in Union with Him in Union with the Second Adam and no longer in Union with the first Adam

 Yes Jesus has already decided our salvation for us but we have to come in agreement with him by believing him by receiving him (John 1:12 to 13)

 The best way to silence your critics is to get out there and get people saved healed and delivered in abundance, of course you will always have a Critic but you will have less critics, the fruit of your labors will speak for itself and those that you touch will speak on behalf of you

 The Bible says not to quench the Holy Spirit and actually it's an imperative or command in the original text/ Greek grammar, the work of the holy spirit in the life of the believer does not automatically take place because there needs to be a cooperation between the Holy Spirit and the believer

 Jesus was made sin with our sin and when this happened on the cross he actually became the first Adam in his fallen state, this is how he redeemed the whole race of the first Adam and then making available the New Birth to those who would receive by believing what he had done for them causing them to become a new creation in Christ the second Adam