I don't believe I stated such.
What I thought I stated was that a person must make a decision about who Christ is and who he (the person) is and their relationship to one another.
One type of decision leads to eternal life (acceptance). The opposite position leads to a different kind of eternal life (rejection).
No one gets to eternal life except through Christ. He is the door.
They were not satisfied with my attempt at an answer, which was that since we have free will, we can change the reality that He has to work with. We become people praying rather than people not praying.
God wants us to pray to Him, often, as unceasingly as we can.
I don't believe we can "change the reality that He has to work with." God is infinite. He knows what will happen to us before we are even born.
If we can change the reality God deals with, then that says God is finite. I don't believe that.
When these complications come up, I go back toward simplicity and concentrate on what he told us to do. I just try to focus on the two great commandments. Nowhere does it say “Be a theologian” or “Figure out the problem of free will.”
Quite true.
You can only make the commitment at the proper time for you. He will keep at you until you do. He will take the obstacles out of your path, one by one, and show you the futility of your own aspirations, one by one, until your way is clear enough.
I have heard many testimonies. Almost universal is the story: But still I went back and tried my old life again. He will burn them out of our souls, like a refiner’s fire.
Then we are able to make the choice.