As I said, that such clearly is a case of a choosing by the people of God for themselves to serve. And that point of that passage remains.
God did not say that he gave the people the ability to choose God.
That is the people making a claim to choose God.
Therefore your point is null and void.
The people are NOT God, and the people are not God imparting the people with the ability to choose God, rather that is the people somewhat concurring with Joshua's words of “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves YHWH, to serve Him.” (Joshua 24:22).
JOSHUA JUST TOLD THEM THAT THEY ARE "WITNESSES AGAINST YOURSELVES", SO THEY TESTIFIED TO THE CONDEMNATION OF THEMSELVES.
When a person is a "witness for a defendant", then such a one is a proponent for the defendant; in other words, a witness for the defendant. This scenario outlines testimony for justification of the defendant.
When a person is a "witness against a defendant", then such a one is an opponent against the defendant; in other words, a witness against the defendant. This scenario outlines testimony for condemnation of the defendant.
The truth is there is no free will in the passage.
What those scriptures say remains to affirm what they have chosen. That’t just my point there.
Then it sounds like you are calling Joshua a false prophet because Joshua declared to the people in response "You will not be able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins..." (Joshua 24:19).
JOSHUA JUST TOLD THEM THAT THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO SERVE GOD.
You can't show that they chose God with God's blessing because scripture does not state such.
What those scriptures in Joshua 24:31 remains. And they are clear enough for me. That Israel, did as they have chosen, served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, living up to their choice of God, to serve Him.
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The people did not fully serve God as is shown in the scripture references below; therefore, the people's choice to serve the Lord is proven to be false because they failed to serve the Lord.
By the way, all the days of Joshua and the elders, that is not the same thing as all the days of those people.
Joshua's death is recorded in Joshua 24:29, and his burial is recorded in Joshua 24:30; therefore, Joshua does not appear to be the author of Joshua 24:31.
You must subtract these words of Joshua "You will not be able to serve the LORD,..." (Joshua 24:19) in order to claim that the people fully served the Lord based upon Joshua 24:31.
And you must add to scripture that the people in attendance when Joshua spoke (Joshua 24:23) put away the foreign gods before scripture records that the later people put away the foreign gods. Again this is explained below.
Joshua 24:31 does not say that the people exclusively served God, in fact, the scripture continues on to reveal that the people in attendance at Joshua's exchange with the people recorded in Joshua 24:1-28 - that the people in attendance did not do as Joshua commanded them.
Regarding when Joshua said "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the LORD, to serve Him" (Joshua 24:22):
From the time that Joshua commanded "Now therefore, put away the foreign gods which are in your midst" (Joshua 24:23) until after Joshua's death (Joshua 24:29) and after Othneil (Judges 3:9) and after Ehud (Judges 3:15) and after Shamgar (Judges 3:31) and after Deborah and Barak (Judges 4-5) and after Gideon (Judges 6-8) and after Tola (Judges 10:1) and after Jair (Judges 10:3), it was not until after all that time that...
After all that time it is written "they put away the foreign gods from among them" (Judges 10:16), and there is no record of the Israelites putting away the foreign gods prior to that time.
Judges 10:16 contains the first occurrence of "foreign gods" after Joshua 24:23.
So there is no record of the people in attendance fulfilling Joshua's command of "Now therefore, put away the foreign gods which are in your midst" (Joshua 24:23), and non-performance of the command shows fruit contrary of their choice mentioned by Joshua.
Because the people in attendance did not "put away the foreign gods" (Joshua 24:23), then:
(1) those people proved the word of Joshua true that those people were not able to serve YHWH, "for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins..." (Joshua 24:19) and
(2) those people were not FULLY serving God or
(3) those people were partially serving God and
(4) those people were not loving YHWH God with all their heart and with all their soul and with all their strength (Deuteronomy 6:5) and
(5) a little leaven leavens the whole loaf so
(6) those people's choice is scripturally demonstrated to be invalid.
The truth is no scripture states that man was imparted free will.
Still, no free will written in the creation account (Genesis 1:1-31 Genesis 2:1- 25 Genesis 3:1-24), with Paul in accord for he conveyed that Adam "not willingly" ate of the tree since Paul included all time prior to Paul's birth by his writing "until now" (Romans 8:20-22).
"YHWH is righteous in all his ways and holy in all his works" (Psalm 145:17)
Just as the original post shows richly in scripture, Adam was not imparted free will, and no man thereafter was imparted free will neither.