Esclarmonde,

You are quite the lawyer.

I am a sinner. I KNOW I am. I am aware of the fact that there is nothing within myself other than lust and greed and selfishness.

I hate the wickedness I see in my own heart and I KNOW that THAT corruption is NOT God.

I do not want the corruption that is within my heart to guide me, or lead me anywhere because I have followed it far enough to see the damage that the erosion of sin has caused.

If you are saying you don't sin, then you are lying, proving that indeed you do sin. And if indeed you do sin, then you need a redeemer.

For the wages of sin is death.

Jesus Christ said "I am the way, the truth and the life, no man cometh to the Father but by Me."

I see humanity (myself included) as the word of God says it is.

You know why? Because I know that God is in control of everything. He created it and what HE THINKS goes, not what I think.

He is all powerful and all knowing and therefore I want HIS guidance.

God says that we have lost sight of our Creator because a liar told us that WE are the Creator.

And just look at the mess we've made as a result.

The world, in it's present form is a razor sharp image of the best that the "elite" of humanity has to offer.

I see a people that justify the MURDER of millions of babies every year to the god of convenience.

We kill the most innocent segment of our society, yet we think that God is pleased.

If we are depending on our OWN efforts and ambitions to grant us enlightenment, we are lost. And that is the truth.

God wants to be worshiped "In Spirit, and In Truth"

How can we truly have an honest relationship with the Creator if we can't even be honest with ourselves about our own true nature?

God's word says "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God."

That means that God has already judged us to death according to our own works...

When we rejected the Creator, we chose death.

The free will choice of ALL mankind was to sin and reject God.

When Adam chose to disobey God, all of humanity came under the curse of sin.

For as in Adam all die, even so in Jesus Christ shall all be made alive.

All free will ended at the moment Adam and Eve sinned. The choice had been made. And the choice was sin and death that separated all of humanity from God. Therefore all of humanity is worthy of death.

Remember that God told Adam and Eve that if they obeyed Him, they would live forever, but if they disobeyed Him they would die?

God himself took on the flesh and lived a perfectly OBEDIENT life and DIED, so that we can live our imperfect life's and LIVE.

By His death and resurrection, mankind was given the ability to come back into fellowship with God.

God HIMSELF did it, HE was THE Christ, only the Creator is perfect and worthy to bear that title.

God called us all to eternal life, but all of humanity chose death in Adam. So our choice was sin and death, but God, through His mercy chose some of us, that were destined for annihilation, and gave us eternal life in His Son Jesus Christ. He didn't choose people based on their actions in the flesh, but instead, chose them by His own good pleasure. Some He chose for life eternal, others he left to go about their merry way to destruction.

So then the choice for salvation is one made by God, not ourselves. We cannot earn salvation, neither can we choose it. We don't choose Jesus Christ, He chooses us.

Remember that our free will was to reject God.

God overrides that free will choice in those whom He chooses to redeem. He gave those that He chose the ability to believe in His resurrected Son and therefore receive eternal life.

We CAN'T believe in Jesus Christ, unless the Father OVERRIDES our free will choice (which was sin) and changes our hearts.

Some people might say that that is "unfair" How is it unfair? Didn't we ALL choose sin? Therefore aren't we ALL worthy of death and destruction? If God, in his sovereign grace, chooses to take a few vessels fitted for destruction and make them into a new creature that is no longer capable of sin is that not His prerogative?

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God