MB, do you think you were/are a good person or do you think you were/are wretched in your sins?
When you fell, because of sin, were you only slightly injured, or was your fall fatal?
The Bible says your fall was fatal. You missed the mark so badly that you were dead. (Ephesians 2:1)
Now, how can one who is dead somehow choose Jesus as Savior?
When a person falls off a cliff and dies from the fall, can that person choose their rescue and regeneration to life?
But God, made us alive... (Ephesians 2:4)
God did more than just regenerate. He sat us at the throne room with Christ. (Ephesians 2:5-7)
Why?
He graciously chose to do this because we were adopted by predestination, before the foundation of the world. (Ephesians 1)
God's choice.
You were dead at the bottom of the cliff. No choice. You fell by your own failed attempt. You died by your own failed attempt. That...was your "free will" at work.
But God...
Your claims of fatalism come from your ignorance of scripture and your fantasy that you have something inately good in yourself. Here's a truth. You have nothing good in yourself. Not one thing. (And neither do any of us.) Accept that reality.
