I am saying we have the choice to accept Salvation, or to not accept Salvation. A sinless life is not possible, though a less sinful life is possible ... that is also a choice.
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You cannot make that choice until you are given the wisdom from above to understand truth. As Pilate experienced, people cannot see truth even if it is standing in front of them.
We have no freewill to choose God, but we have freewill to reject God. Hence, our belief comes from the Holy Spirit through the Word and Sacraments. Belief is a gift from our Lord. Our unbelief is our personal rejection.
Ephesians 2 Made Alive in Christ 1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved.
Romans 8:6,7 6 The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace. 7 The mind governed by the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
1 Corinthians 2:14 (New International Version, ©2010) 14 The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit.