God is completely sovereign over the affairs of men, including their eternal destiny, AND man is responsible and accountable for the decision to believe in or reject Christ as Lord and Savior.
Scripture teaches both. You can accept that or not – no spoon-feeding on the matter provided here. If you don’t like the idea (and most folks probably won’t), even quoting directly from scripture will be labeled as just ‘my opinion’. Check it out for yourself. This writer hopes that your profession of Christ (if you are a Christ follower) would drive you into Scripture to see exactly what God has revealed to us about the matter, and having done that, just believe it and leave the mystery of it all to God’s secret will.
In the end you will believe what you want to believe, as do we all. The difference between Christians and non-Christians is that somewhere inside of the person who has trusted in Christ for salvation, there is a change in what we want to believe – there’s a new desire to believe what God reveals in scripture, even if we can’t wrap our human brains around it.
The Battle Cry 
Dear webmaster, thanks for this post, but I must disagree with your position above. Scripture teaches us that men are responsible for their own sins, and because of this men are totally separated from God for all the eternity. Men are dead, because it is the price of sin, the reward that men deserve and this is the reason nobody cannot make any good work or a single attitude to reach God, or to accept or decline His “invitation” to be saved. It is a Holy Spirit matter, because His power can make a man to be born again as a new creature. By the faith we are saved, and faith is a gift from God; it does not come from us, it is not a good work, we will not be rewarded because we “accepted”: this is salvation based on good works, not by grace, that is ultimately God’s decision to elect, give faith, call, justify, regenerate and sanctify a person. The difference between Christians and non-Christians is only the Holy Spirit’s presence, that makes all differences. Not by us, but by God’s will. We only believe because God gave us faith; this is not an intellectual matter. If faith come by reason, or by will, I guess nobody could be saved, or called son of God, because nobody can justify themselves: God can. God bless your ministry.
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My name is Dan.
Cleber, You have given us an excellent description of God’s sovereignty in salvation!
Those who are saved have only God to thank; those who are lost have only themselves to blame. God gets all the credit for man’s salvation; the unsaved man must take full blame and responsibility for his eternal damnation. The saved person thankfully says, “I’m in heaven because of God!” The lost person must truthfully say, “I’m in hell because of me!” Those who are damned will never be able to blame God or say, “I’m damned because God did not choose me.” Their damnation is based not upon God’s rejection of them but upon their rejection of God: “He that believeth not shall be damned” (Mark 16:16). “That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness” (2 Thess. 2:12 and compare verse 10). “And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life” (John 5:40).
It’s a divine paradox because they seem to contradict but they both are true, and we can’t understand it fully.
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