"Choice" is not "work," which any schoolchild could correctly tell you, but no Calvinist can figure it out.
Hank
It isn't? You are funny.
The very definition of the word "choice" means "the act of choosing".
Definitions of the word "act" mean to make the effort to produce an effect: "work". To "engage in the process of doing something". To "take action".
Effort: "Work"
To engage in the act of choosing, then, is to engage in a work.
You are one confused dude.
Now, in spite of what you said which prompted my response in #39, you have reversed yourself.
You are now back to disagreeing with what God says in Romans 9, and instead are saying:
"It DOES, therefore depend on man's desire or effort (the act of choosing), not on God's mercy."
God (the potter) does NOT have the perogative to take his lump of clay and to elect (make) some of it for a noble purpose and some of it for common use.