"So by works you were saved. But just one thing. Seeing that God says we are spirtitually dead. How did you choose? Can dead people select anything?"
This is bogus exo-theo-nonsense (I'll coin my own ten cent word to sound important)!
If God makes people believe or reject, why does He question aloud when people reject or disobey Him? It makes no sense. It's as if the Lord were perplexed by His own actions or will....
Numbers 14
11 And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
We know that God needed to send a savior so its obvious he wasn't pleased.