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Are you saying that God chooses us because He looked down the corridor of time and saw that we would believe in Christ. Again you fall into grave error, friend. You make the secret decree of God in eternity dependent upon the will of man. Hence, you make God subject to man. Man becomes, in essence, equal to or superior to the God who created him. If that is the case, your God is too weak to save and too subservient to warrant our praise and worship.

I still believe you misstate the doctrine of depravity. In fact, I think your misunderstanding is so complete that I do not know where to begin. At every turn, when given an explanation of the doctrine, you substitute your concept for the biblical teaching.

This thread was originally on the topic of irresistable grace. You must want to claim that you did not resist the grace of God. If you did not, did that make you worthy of God's grace? If one can resist the grace of God, doesn't that mean that they are more powerful than God? You see, the problem with your theory is that error in this area of theology necessarily touches on others.

Are you saying that God chooses us because He looked down the corridor of time and saw that we would believe in Christ.

Absolutely. "Those he FOREKNEW, he predestined."

Your statement that I am in error is certainly testimony to your disagreement with me, but it hardly constitutes evidence that you are correct and I am wrong.

This thread lists far more scripture affirming resistible grace than it does scripture which purports to document irresistible grace.

I just responded to the John 6:37 verse. There is a simple explanation based on verses 40 and 45 that demonstrate how it, too, fits into a free choice perspective.