Is it something (good) in the believer that counsels God to favour his chosen (Jews and Gentiles)? Not at all; “The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; but because the LORD loved you” (Deuteronomy 7:7,8).

“And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy” (Exodus 33:19). Indeed, “the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger: as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated,” Romans 9:11-13.

Jew and Gentiles who come to believe in the Son of God, Jesus the Christ, come because they are “predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will” (Ephesians 1:11).

“He declareth the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure” (Isaiah 46:10).

God doesn’t look down the corridors of time to learn which sinners will choose to believe in Him, and on that basis elects those who will be saved. There are many verses in the Bible (I quoted a few above) that should put that dead idea to bed for good.

Furthermore, God knows everything from the beginning , from eternity in fact. God, therefore, doesn’t learn anything, and certainly nothing from his creation of which the two primeval creatures are (the corridors of) time and space. So God doesn’t look down any corridors of time to see any who are righteous enough to deserve to be elected to eternal life – and on the basis of what He learns decides on a plan of salvation.

7 He hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
8 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; 9 Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began (2 Timothy 1:7-9).

The gift of a sound mind comprehends the understanding that God calls and saves according to his own eternal purpose and grace.