So you make all your decisions with your eyes closed and a bag over your head?
Your view of salvation relies on its acquisition by man's choice and not God's. It is acquisition by man weighing the merits of his options, assessing whether or not to accept God's "offer" of salvation.
It is acquisition by man's intuitive faculties, his higher judgment, his profound piety, his well-stocked library, his superior discretion, his smarter hunch. Nor the number of indulgences he can afford.
All this wrestling with the decision to "accept" God's "offer" cleverly leaves the ultimate fate of mankind's soul up to man and his well-reasoned choice, and not to God and His eternal decree.
But I think God demands the final answer on just about everything, whether we want to give it to Him or not.
It is all of Him, and none of us. That's why it's called "Irresistible Grace" by those who know their sorry brains and puny decisions have nothing to do with it.
That's why it's a "gift," unmerited and nonrefundable.
No. Wrong. You couldn't be more wrong. It is acquisition by simple drawing of the Holy Spirit and acquiescing to His call upon one's life. It is not a "weighing of option" or a "higher judgment." It is simply bending our knee to the call of God. You continue to paint the doctrine with a misunderstanding eye, either through ignorance or naivete.