@CoreIssue,
What is your take on
Jhn 15:16, Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
I am a Christian.
Man has a sinful nature that is enemy against God.
"For the sinful nature is always hostile to God. It never did obey God's laws, and it never will. That's why those who are still under the control of the their sinful nature can never please God." Romans 8:7,8.
The mind of the flesh is hostile towards God yet you came to Christ all on your own power - amazing.