So, “believing” and “accepting,” they’re not choices?
However, we don't have the power to choose unless God enables us. We can't even come to God in the first place unless He draws us.
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.
But God doesn't compel.
Love is not love if it's not freely given.
And if God wanted a planet full of little automons, He could have it by just taking away our ability to choose and forcing people to be saved whether they liked it or not.
But that is not what is shown in Scripture to be the way He wants it to be.
However, once we make that decision, He seals us and essentially, protects us from ourselves.
If it depended on me to remain faithful, I don't know if I could do it.
I can't be good enough and I know that about myself. For that reason, I am happy to have His seal on me to keep me when I couldn't do it myself. And He more than has my permission to do so, as if He needed it.
So He brings us to the point of decision and let's us do the choosing. and when we've decided for Him, then He seals us. If we reject, we may or may not have other opportunities, but based on what I've seen, God is very persistent and gives most people many, many opportunities.
I heard many times before it finally sunk in and I *got it*. And I understood and made that decision.
But each time was a seed planted that just took time to bear its own fruit, that being my faith.
It's only when we die that the we are done with the chance forever and we are stuck with what we got.