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Acceptance is effectively a work, infact Paul is very specific, “It is not of him who runs or him who wills”. You do not choose yourself into heaven. To be honest, the fact that Jesus has died for your sins would save you whether or not you then turned toward him.

Everybody has equal opportunity to redemption. It is not that people can’t but it is that they won’t. They so won’t that it is practically as if they can’t.

And yet you have not explained how your description of acceptance is exempt from this.  And, as a side note, the verse you cited doesn’t say that acceptance is a work.  It says that God is the ultimate foundation, it is by His will that any are saved - a point which I have repeatedly affirmed and yet you don’t seem to be hearing.

Why won’t they?  Because of Total Depravity?  If it is an inherent part of our nature that we won’t accept, then we are incapable of accepting.  In this instance, “won’t” is “can’t”, and you yourself even said that they are near as makes no difference.  What you’re saying equates to saying that our nature does not allow us to absorb cyanide safely, and that because this is our nature, we won’t do it (which is true), but that that’s somehow different from saying we can’t.  Yet you haven’t supported how they can be different.  Which means we just end up right back where I started, that is, that if mankind is incapable of accepting salvation without a changed nature, and God will only change the nature of some, then God is choosing who is saved - by choosing who can accept, He chooses who will accept, and therefore chooses who will be saved and who will not.  Explain to me how your answer can possibly translate into salvation being available to everyone.