Fat Guy’s position sounds a little like a Calvinist view. But not nearly as extreme, since Calvinists pretty much say you don’t have any choice in the matter- the Elect, Predestination, dead in your sins and all that.
Yours is more typical of an Arminian view, found in some Baptist circles. Although some Baptists have the Calvinist position.
Dr Joe Tuten
Calvary Baptist Jackson Miss
60s
He was reformist about some tenets but not that