Yup.
I'm happy to affirm that Man was created with "the capability to 'want' both sides of an issue" as you put it, to want to obey God, or to disobey God, and could have chosen either.
And, thereafter, Man Fell.
And I further affirm, that as a result of this Fall, that all of the spiritually-vital, God-pleasing Wants of Man's original Nature are lying dead in a pool of their own blood at the base of the Tree of Knowledge, murdered by Man's own hand. That ever since the Fall, his Will is free, but the Wants which inform his Will have been wholly remanded over to depravity and hatred of God.
Taken together, then, Man has free will, and Man hates God; and so he hates God freely and willfully.
But all that is immaterial to the case at hand. To wit:
As I have said: I am entirely willing, for the sake of discussion, to throw out the Calvinist doctrine of Total Depravity and suppose that Man, even in his natural, Fallen state, nonetheless possesses wholly uninhibited free will and utterly unencumbered natural moral competence to Repent and "choose life".
Because even making these allowances doesn't help your position one bit.
I am not herein particularly concerned with proving Calvinism per se, but simply the precedent doctrinal matter of Absolute Sovereign Predestination -- that God, of His own Sovereign Will, absolutely pre-determines the individual choices of Men, to Repent or not to Repent.
Let's take it from the top. Assume that Tyre, Sidon, and Sodom possess all the free will and natural moral competence you want, and God has still absolutely pre-determined what their choices are going to be, by His control of the factors (such as displays of miracles) which inform their Free Will.
Here it is again:
True, or False?
You know that what Jesus is teaching here: that God has specifically pre-determined the individual choices of Men.
These are the actual words of Jesus.
And I accuse you of understanding His words, and hating them.
Prove me wrong. Answer the question as to the recorded facts of the case.
I have answered your true/false question and just now posted it. Throughout it I use God's words and demonstrate a high regard for God and his words.
I understand the use of hyperbole and assume your being dramatic in the above accusation. I will point out, however, that it makes you seem a little weird. Is that the impression you're hoping to give?