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I think all of us have wills. How free each person's will is is the question.
A person in pride is not free but a slave of sin, I understand through Romans 6:17, plus through the fact that "God resists the proud" (in James 4:6 and also in 1 Peter 5:5).
And the person of selfishness-infected nature is not free to love like a child of God loves. A person's character has a lot to do with if he or she can genuinely love. With Satan, I did not even know there was such a thing as how God has a person love; so how could I a selfish person in denial know that was a choice? My choices were limited to how I was in my foolish and self-dictating personality; so my will was not free, to say the least.
Only God is almighty to change our character. His grace does this, by means of the correction which I understand is meant by Hebrews 12:4-14. And this starts with being turned "from the power of Satan to God" (Acts 26:18), and trusting in Jesus for salvation and all He desires to do with us > Ephesians 1:2. God makes this change; so this is in sharing with God.
You appear to have already conceded that God controls some, and not others. But if God decides to do this, then why not just control all, instead of some? Please address what I stated to you in post #12:
"If their will is taken away by God, then it should not matter if they were humble prior. God is now controlling them regardless. Whomever God chooses, are now all under His control regardless. These folks are now drawn inexorably."
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