God doesn't choose one for damnation. We're already damned. This point seems to be lost.
"Do you think all of the elect are prophets, selected in the womb?
The elect are not prophets nor is everyone filled with the Holy Spirit in the womb. But we know from Romans 8 that God foreknew and predestined His own before the foundations of the world. So God knows His sheep.
Since you, SD, believe that God "prods" people along you must also believe there are people whose hearts He's hardened who God plans on throwing into Hell. This is NOT my position.
If not, how did they come to exist outside of God's sovereign will?
The elect are not prophets nor is everyone filled with the Holy Spirit in the womb.
Then there is somethign different about J the B and Jeremiah. God acted differently for them.
Since you, SD, believe that God "prods" people along you must also believe there are people whose hearts He's hardened who God plans on throwing into Hell. This is NOT my position.
God prods. He does nto compell. That is your position, that God decided beforehand everything. God made Pharoah unreceptive to His people, but it was ultimately Pharoah's decision.
It is the person who believes in a total depravity that must explain how God's sovereignity does not make Him responsible for damnation.
SD