Actually Gram you are seeking as a man to interfer with their free will choice to remain unsaved..and you are asking God to do that work FOR YOU at your request
" I am asking God to graciously affect their agency such that they have a truly free choice in the matter."
You seek to make both God and the man act as you will not as THEY will
Those of us that believe God is really sovereign over all matters would say
God graciously acts to affect their agency in such a way such that they have a truly free choice in the matter.
You seem to think it is ok for you to pick the target where Gods grace should be sent to affect their will..but if does it He is making man a pupppet .
Rom 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
Are you the potters foreman?:>)..You do need to stop praying like that if you REALLY believe that free agency is a right
You're wrong there. I don't pray as if reciting a "shopping list" or as if I were attempting to manipulate God to do as I wish. I pray to help reinforce my own conception of what God wants done. Since I believe the Bible when it says "[God] willeth that all men be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth," that means that I pray for God to "interfere" in others' lives that they may receive the grace that I know God wants to give them.
You seek to make both God and the man act as you will not as THEY will.
I seek to bring my own purposes into alignment with God's own, and to pray for others' salvation.
Those of us that believe God is really sovereign over all matters would say "God graciously acts to affect their agency in such a way such that they have a truly free choice in the matter."
No, actually, I chose the word 'affect their agency' specifically for a reason. "Affect" is to influence. "Effect" is to irresistibly necessitate change. I pray for God to affect their agency; you and those that think that they believe "God is really sovereign" pray for God to effect a change in man's agency.
You seem to think it is ok for you to pick the target where Gods grace should be sent to affect their will..but if does it He is making man a pupppet [sic].
Nope, I only "pick the target where Gods [sic] grace should be sent," etc., because I believe that that aligns with God's purposes. I pray for those around me because God has placed them there.
Rom 9:21 "Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" Are you the potters foreman?:>)..You do need to stop praying like that if you REALLY believe that free agency is a right
I love out-of-context proof-texting, don't you?