God calls, I must respond because his Spirit within me urges it.
Responding = salvation by works. The response of the human will is damnable.
You do not know North from South, so how will you discern the truth?
Now how is north from south any different than me using a dog to illustrate why many are called but few chosen?
That's easy to answer; north and south are compared to your claimed knowledge of truth and error. You do not know the former which are earthly matters so how can you claim to know the latter when they are spiritual matters spiritually discerned.
But dogs are bad "object lessons"?
You're being mischievous with the facts.
What do you think I meant?
I shall not repeat your sacrilegious comparison.
“But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self. For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.” 1 Corinthians 4:3–5 (KJV 1900)
How did this end up in two threads?
It seems to work.
Not for any useful purpose.