I truly believe God elected me. I absolutely know I never "made a decision to invite Christ into my heart." No one ever told me I should and I wasn't in a place in my life where I would have gone okey-dokey had someone suggested such a thing. I didn't choose Jesus anymore than Jonah chose to go where God told him to go. Obviously, at some point I got (and am getting) where God wanted me to go, but I never, ever chose God.
And because of that, people keep telling me that I think God is a robot maker or a puppeteer. Let me settle at least that much and allow me the choice "robot." I am God's robot?
I don't get that. For those of you who think the two choices are "Man chooses God" or "Man is a robot," would you please explain that to me? I keep asking people who say things like that, but never get a clear answer. (Usually I get absolutely no answer.) So, if you are the kind of person who thinks either we choose God or we are robots, would you please explain to me why I am a robot?