[fortheDeclaration]

A person is in hell because they chose to be there. Therefore a person is in heaven because they chose to be there.

True!

They accept the free gift of salvation which is offered by grace.

'choice' is not a work since it is faith that saves us and we choose to believe or not. (Jn.3:36, Rom.4:4-5)

Just like a Christian has to 'choose' to yield in his Christian walk (Rom.6), but we still walk by faith (2Cor.5:7).

So if you are not choosing to 'yield' to God, then you are choosing not to yield to God and reject His grace and thus, you grieve/quench the Holy Spirit (Eph.4 1Thess.5)

The 'choice' that God has give us is to believe or not. It is that faith that pleases God. (Heb.11:6)

[drstevej]

***Therefore a person is in heaven because they chose to be there.***

ftD: true

drsj: Many are called and a few choose....

Not the way my Bible reads

[AlguyA]

"'choice' is not a work since it is faith that saves us and we choose to believe or not. (Jn.3:36, Rom.4:4-5)"

Sorry, but this makes absolutely no sense, whatsoever. If one "chooses" to "believe or not," one is performing a 'work.' -indeed, the biggest 'work' of all.

It seems to me that if one believes the Protestant proclamtion of "faith alone," one perforce must accept the Calvinist concept of irresistable grace.

And I'm Catholic, for Pete's sake.

[biblewonk]

Romans 8:29 For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. 30Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.