So did YOU select your parents? Did you select the year or place of your birth? Did you select your sex or race or IQ?
All your "free will choices " happen within those boundries..I can not ever choose to be a french man or 15 years old again...do you admit that there are some "free will" choices we can not make?
If you jump from a 100 story building can you make a free will choice to change your mind at the 50th floor? Or does the superior law of gravity make that decision of no effect?
Think about this douglas..the idea of an unfettered free will is a lie of Satan...
Of course our choices are limited, I don't think I've said differently. Here is what I said previously:
In that sense, I agree that we are limited in our choices...we've already made them and God knows what those choices are. He knows who his people are and always has. But he didn't make those choices. We did.
Our choices are what either brings us to God or turn away from God. In it's most basic sense, the *only* purpose of our free will is to make the decision whether or not we want to accept or reject God.