>>all we have to do is accept the free gift of salvation by accepting what Christ did on the cross.... that's all

>So you are disagreeing with Howard. He says people are predestined, you are saying that everyone has a choice.

Well, God know who will accept and who won't because He knows all. Bible says He knew you even before you were conceived. He knows that the road to salvation is narrow becuase humans are proud and arrogant becuase of sin. We're too proud to accept a free gift and can't recognize their weakness. So they think they know more then God and don't need God... Roman 1:22 says "professing to be wise, they became fools....". So we try to be "good" and do "good" things to make up for our past and future inequities and reject the free gift of salvation.

He may know who will and who won't but we cerntainly don't. Many Christians were very secular and even anti-christians before they finally accepted Christ as their savior. What made them convert? Who knows.... Perhaps they finally realize that life without a loving and caring God is empty. Maybe God give life a purpose....

Today Evan Delay is not a Christian. But years from now you never know.... So yes, you have a choice... we all do... but only God knows what your choice will be.