Of course, all men have been “called”. Many are called, but few are chosen. It’s not contradictory evidence.
All men are justly sentenced to eternal damnation. Only those whom God chooses are spared their earned punishment. No man can understand or accept God without God’s enlightenment bestowed upon those he has chosen.
God hardened men’s hearts — if we are to believe the Bible. The phrase is meaningless if you interpret it to mean “God made men’s hearts to be what they would have been anyway”.
I find the discussion in this thread much more antagonistic than is necessary or helpful.
So you believe that an infinitely merciful and just God created independent, conscious, and responsible souls merely for the sole purpose of throwing them into Hell--through no ability of their own to repent?
How is that either merciful or just? It is contrary to the very nature of God.
Note: I am not denying we deserve punishment