Ok, I’ll bite..... Why is it not a “choice” to ponder and pursue God...... or not? Why is it not a choice to reject God.... or in context with this thread, to reject Jesus?
TF49, you are not biting on anything unfamiliar to normal human experience. The "choices" you note are most real and common to most of humankind, and have been occurring all day, every day. for a long, long time. It simply does not become conversational currency because most folks do it internally - infrequently through interaction with others. The "choices" seem to become conversational primarily under certain circumstances.
Some persons feel called to create such circumstances - to preach, to call out, to post provocative messages or chunks of Scripture, to challenge or advise others, etc. Others simply look for opportunities to be supportive and helpful for folks who may be searching toward, or researching, such choices. Others will share or express their thoughts and recommendations only if directly asked. Some good people will never engage such issues with another.
Then too, some people seem to disdain the very existence, or at least the idea, of any such choices. They may act as if supremely knowledgeable, challenge the choices and beliefs of others, create diversions, you name it. Humans are diverse - thus the differences.
However, we do seem to have some important commonalities in the core. And, with some, the reaching and making of such a monumental choice will prompt significant changes of belief and behavior - changes that can be huge.
This is just a tiny slice of singular human experience.
