Not just Jacob and Esau. . .I had no "free-will input" about being born, about being male or female, about who were my parents, about where I was born, about the color of my eyes, hair and skin, about my IQ, etc., etc., etc.
What's with this "free-will input" regarding one's origin.
Premise 1: All free will decisions must be sacrosanct or they are not free in fact, only in feeling.
Premise 2: Sin can only accrue to a person choosing by a free will decision to reject GOD or to rebel against HIS commands...no one is seen as sinful if innocent of such a choice.
Premise 3: Being conceived / born as a sinner or sinful in any way or propensity cannot be our creation as it makes us sinners without any free will decision to sin, no
mens rea and without guilty intent there can be no crime.
If GOD created me a sinner without my free will choice to sin then I am a sinner by HIS will and my sins accrue to HIM, which cannot be true and is frankly abhorrent.
Premise 4: Our election to salvation cannot be unconditional or the non-election of the reprobate is also unconditional: anathema!
It is my suggestion we were elected before the foundation of the world due to our faith in HIM as our GOD and in the Son as the only saviour for sin and the reprobate were passed over for election for sinning the unforgivable sin of rejecting HIS claims to be our GOD as the lies of a false god. And yes, this is just what it sounds like, a belief that we were there pre-election, before the foundation of the world.
Only those who sinned were flung (sown, planted), to the earth, reprobate and elect alike as per
Matt 13:36-39, though the elect were never condemned and the unbelievers are already condemned:
Jn 3:18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. ie, infants are saved if they are believers, and not saved if condemned already.
A sinner is enslaved to the addiction of sin so when GOD manipulates the lives of sinners, (ie everyone who has been or will be conceived or born on earth, Jacob, Essau Jeremiah, everyone),
GOD is NOT going against our free will but only against our sinful will which, due to our choice to sin, set us at enmity to HIM. We chose our FATES pre-election and GOD chose, predetermined, our LIVES as sinners, lives which conform to our previously chosen free will decisions (for both the reprobate and sinful elect), for one purpose, the sanctification of the sinful elect to end the postponement of the judgement.
Being careless about our free will in both election and in salvation by grace, need not be countenanced.