@SavedByGrace :
Time for me to exit this thread.
As much as I'd like to continue this, we really have been through much of this to a great extent.
We disagree, and that is where it will stand unless God changes it.
I'm sorry, sir, but the contents of Romans 1, Romans 2 and Romans 3 are, for the most part, where I get the answers to our heart condition before God.
The Psalms, Proverbs and certain places in the "Gospels" ( Matthew, Mark, Luke and John ) are as well.
God's salvation starts there and it's not an invitation in the sense of us being willing to accept it...
In addition,
To me, you simply won't accept that God decides to save some and not others ( Romans 9, Romans 11 ), and that it is
His choice ( Ephesians 1:4-5, 2 Thessalonians 2:13-14, Psalms 65:4 ),
not ours, that saves us.
I wish you well, as always,
and may He bless you in many ways, my friend.