Before salvation, every person is spiritually blind and spiritually dead. They may hear the gospel, but they cannot grasp it. Their heart is closed, their understanding is darkened, and they have no spiritual sight. “Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.” (Ephesians 4:18) “And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins.” (Ephesians 2:1) A bli