[what's up]

I cannot get around the idea that God would create people for eternal damnation.

He does not.

All of us are under sin and it is of our own choosing. Our free choice mechanism will always choose rebellion. We are less than deity, so imperfect and, thus, hopeless sinners.

Adam had a choice, Eve had a choice, we all have a choice.

You must work through the story of Jacob and Esau. It is clear that it was all God's election...Jacob was a thorough scoundrel in himself. This is why Paul uses the story as an example in Romans...to show God's sovereignty. Also Abraham. Abraham in no way chose God. God elected him.

[rusty schucklefurd]

re: “All of us are under sin and it is of our own choosing. Our free choice mechanism will always choose rebellion.”

Yes because God has ordained our every action to be thus. We have no free choice to rebel, we rebel because God has sovereignly chosen us to do so.