You know, Paul answered this question (Romans 9:16,19-24 NASB):
So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.
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You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?”
On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?
Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.
I'm of the *Let everything be established by two or three witnesses* and I use that in interpreting Scripture.
Are there other passages that say essentially the same thing?
I am not comfortable with one passage that stands alone to support a doctrine.
Additionally, I see it as contradicting many other passages of Scripture that indicate we do have a choice.
And since I am convinced that Scripture cannot contradict itself, then there's the need to explain the apparent contradiction.
Or someone's interpretation is wrong.