The question always comes up : Why does one person choose God and another rejects ? Is it because the one person is good , and the other person is bad ? : Romans 3(10): There is none righteous , no not one! and Mark 10(18): There is none good but one, that is God! So if they are both bad, as the bible clearly states : Why then does one person choose God, and the other person does not? When a man comes to God he believes that HE is doing it, but at the same time he cannot understand how that another person, understanding the same things that he does, could possibly say no to God ! The only answer of course is : that the other person does not have the same understanding ! The next obvious question is of course : Why does he not have the same understanding? : Matthew 13(11): To you IT IS GIVEN to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven : To them IT IS NOT GIVEN ! Either God gives his spirit unto you, and you then receive understanding, and you then can come to him, or : God witholds his spirit from you, and you are thus left in darkness, and CANNOT come to him : Psalms 65(4): Blessed is the man WHOM THOU CHOOSES AND CAUSES to approach unto thee ! Either way it is TOTALLY THE WORK OF GOD, and not some imagined free will choice or work of man which falsely gives credit unto man for something which he did not and CANNOT do ! Ephesians 2(1-5): You hath HE quickened who were DEAD ! and God when we were DEAD hath quickened us together with Christ ! A dead man cannot make a free will choice to choose God, because a dead man can do nothing BECAUSE HE IS DEAD !!! This should be a no brainer, yet there are endless people who insist against all logic, that man has the power to make his own free will choice to come to God, even though he is DEAD !! A DEAD man can do nothing : Only God can quicken us to life : Colossians 2(13): You being DEAD hath HE quickened ! So the sole determining factor to whether one comes to God or not is : God gives his spirit : You then receive understanding : And then you can come to God OR God witholds his spirit : You remain in darkness : And thus CANNOT come to God !!! And so again it is solely and totally the work of God and not some imagined free will choice of man, again falsely giving credit unto man for something he did not and indeed CANNOT do : John 6(44): No man can come to me except THE FATHER DRAW HIM !!! Some other scriptures proving that it is not by man's free will choice that we come to God , but only by God's will : John 1(13): Which were born NOT OF THE WILL OF MAN , but of God! and Romans 9(16): So then it is not of him that willeth, but of God! and James 1(18): Of HIS OWN WILL begat he us with the word !!!