Predestination vs. Free Will- Are we chosen by God, or do we choose God?

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Soul, you asked a sharp question—“What is your understanding of grace?” So let’s break it open and let the Word speak.

Grace is not God offering help to the morally inclined. Grace is not a nudge. Grace is resurrection. It’s the sovereign, undeserved, and unstoppable favor of God that takes rebels, haters of God, spiritual corpses—and makes them sons (Eph. 2:4–5, Rom. 5:10). You said He doesn’t draw anyone against their free will. Agreed. But here’s the real mic drop: He changes their will.

Before God draws a soul, that soul doesn’t want Him. Doesn’t seek Him. Doesn’t love Him. Romans 3:11—“no one seeks God.” Not one. Our will is enslaved to sin (John 8:34), dead in trespasses (Eph. 2:1), and hostile to God (Rom. 8:7). So when the Father draws someone to the Son, He’s not dragging a willing saint. He’s awakening a dead sinner.

That drawing isn’t coercion. It’s conversion. It’s not God violating their will. It’s God renewing their will. Ezekiel 36:26—“I will remove the heart of stone… and give you a heart of flesh.” Once that happens, the sinner wants Christ. Grace doesn’t crush the will. It liberates it.

So no, God doesn’t violate free will—He sets it free.

—Sincere Seeker. Scripturally savage. Here for the Truth.

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The wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23), so since sin leads to death, and Grace leads to life, how could Grace work in those who willfully commit sin and refuse to repent of it?

But you said that God doesn’t draw anyone against their free will. So, if the soul’s will is to not want God: doesn’t want to seek or love Him, then why would He draw that soul to those things against their will?