In my opinion, “The lost choose to be lost.”
The late Christopher Hitchen and Richard Dawkins were/ are famous atheists to whom atheism is a religion at least in my opinion. Not satisfied just to be atheists, they denigrated believers. Richard Dawkins even calls religion a form of child abuse.
Richard Dawkins wrote The God Delusion and one of his quotes is “We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” Believers are trying to pray Richard Dawkins into the kingdom but apparently with no success.
Christopher Hitchen, author of God is not Great, died of cancer in 2011. His wife added a footnote to an unfinished book describing going through the many notes he left behind. She wrote, "When I do, I hear him, and he has the last word. Time after time, Christopher has the last word." Unfortunately for Christopher, he does not have the last word, God most assuredly does
I recall that before Hitchen died believers pleaded with him to turn to Jesus for salvation but he refused to, at least as far as known. Many people were praying for his salvation so perhaps at the end came to faith or his heart was too hardened. God knows.
I would suggest that both Christopher Hitchen and Richard Dawkins chose to be lost in part for the fame and money that they gained as atheistic word-smiths and due to their pride. Both were very invested in their atheistic positions and took part in several interesting debates with believer John C. Lennox.
Turning to scripture:
John 3:17, “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Thayer’s definition of condemn/ condemned includes “to separate, put asunder, to pick out, select, choose. to be judged, i.e. summoned to trail that one’s case may be examined and judgment passed upon it,”
John 3:18, “He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
Not to believe in the only begotten son of God is a deliberate choice.
John 3:19, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.”
Jesus was the light that came into the world and that light was extinguished for three days. Extinguished by a coalition of evil temple leaders and possibly less evil Roman officials.
John 3:20, “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”
Thayer’s definition of reproved includes “to reprehend severely, chide, admonish, call to account, to punish.
John 8:12, “Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.”
It is our choice to accept or reject the light by either following or not following Jesus, our Messiah.
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