Strawman argument. Instinctive robotic ability is not what I am espousing. What I am saying is that ALL fact begins with God, so whatever will we have is HIS doing. We cannot (and do not) operate on his level of fact. We do not create fact.
You say: “whatever will we have is His doing”, so how is that not something programmed into us?
If it helps to see what I mean, consider that modern Cosmology and Physics are suggesting that all that has happened or will happen in time has "already happened" —that is, that all time exists "simultaneously". I have no doubt that is a stilted way to see it, but the fact is that it is all in-hand, to God. It isn't a matter of him inserting himself into time, but that time flows FROM him. ALL FACT is his.
I am a believer in a “Block Universe”, but that does not eliminate the individual making autonomous free will choices.
From God’s perspective everything happened at once, He is outside of time, but we are in time (time God most likely created).
The question is what “set” the free will choice an individual made? Scientist do not believe in a god making the choices, since that is outside their realm of reasons, so it is the individual themselves make the choices.
Thus, there is no need for humanly-derived interpretations of Scripture nor for humanly-derived "fill-in-the-gap" logic to demonstrate how things work. The Bible does not speak of "free will" except as concerns 'voluntary' offerings; that is, not obligated by command. So there is no need to invent it.
Verses supporting free will
Gen. 1-3 Did Adam and Eve have free will?
Exodus 35:29 “All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the Lord
freewill offerings for all the work the Lord through Moses had commanded them to do.” Are these truly free will offerings?
Jonah 3: 10 “When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.” Did the people of Nineveh change what God said he would do?
How is this not saying that God’s actions are contingent on the choices of the people?
"You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life." (John 5:39-40). Note that Jesus does not say, "you cannot come", which the Greek does not say here, but, "you refuse to come", in order that you may have eternal life. It was their own rejection of Jesus and the Gospel, that would damn their souls, and not because they were "unable" to make the "choice" themselves.
Christ is God here on earth. The “whomsoever” does not mean only the elect, but lots of people, who then made the choice to accept or reject Christ. "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me,
yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life." (John 5:39-40)
To say: “Christ only reveals Himself to those who God have chosen to accept Him”, means God is guilty of not helping others to accept Christ.
John 15: 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
If they have no free will, they have an excellent excuse for sinning?
There are all the “whosoever” verses making it contingent.
Nothing I have tried to show denies God's love, but only the demonstrations of love that humans demand— particularly things that feel unloving to us DURING THIS TEMPORAL existence, as though there is no bigger picture to consider. "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." Romans 8:18-23
If God is only saving some and not all for some unknowable reason, while saving all is just as easy for God to do, then a God that does not save all has less Love than a God who saves all.
The reason some are not "saved" is because they are unwilling.