I was talking with a man who believed in God, and thought that we have no choice about whether or not we're going to heaven or hell. "God chooses His elect and there's nothing you can do," he said. "To believe anything else makes God no longer sovereign and not all powerful!"

Look what God lamented in Luke 13: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, just as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not have it!" (v43)

It is God's sovereign decision to let us make our own choices, whether to be with Him eternally or to be forever separated. Saying that He does not have the power to let us make our own choices is to contradict what He says.