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Hell isn't the analogy; uselessness is. A withered, non fruit-bearing branch is useless. So is an eternally secure child of God who doesn't abide in Christ.

Paul is telling the brothers in Christ not to go to court against each other before unjust/unbelievers/unrighteous. These people aren't inheriting the kingdom of God and brothers have no business subjecting their internal disputes to these absolutely unqualified judges. This group of...

No, it isn't hell. Men don't cast men into hell. It's part of the illustration showing the uselessness of the saved person who doesn't abide in Jesus. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

No, the heart is distinct from the will. It doesn't say that God alters the king's will into something it's not. The king's heart has been diverted but his will can still freely choose between whatever A's and B's are being submitted to it. There's no altering of the Christian's will in...

There's no altering of the person's will in this verse. A person's plans and a person's will aren't the same thing.

That's how I understand it. Note that the will isn't a "result" or a "course of events". therefore intervention doesn't alter the human will. It simply removes the choice-options that were available to the will. That same unaltered free will now has new choice-options to sovereignly decide...

God sovereignly chooses to intervene. A man sovereignly chooses how he's going to respond to that intervention. Intervention and response are two entirely different things, therefore one choice doesn't "come out on top" of the other. Both choices have 100% success in being made.

Who's choice is what?

The Holy Spirit convicts all humans. He only indwells those who receive Christ as their Savior.

You haven't referenced any Scripture passage(s) that mention a "broken will".

Scripture mentions a broken heart and a broken spirit (Psalm 34:18 & 51:17). Does it mention a "broken will" anywhere?

Look in the Bible. It's between the front cover and the back cover.

God made the serpent good. Then the serpent turned bad.

Wrong.

It's a choice, not fate. God intervenes in all our lives; not just Paul's.

Yes. They also had general revelation. I don't think that.

I didn't say they would. "Would" is hypothetical. God gave (no 'woulds' about it) His revelation to Israel, not to the Gentiles. Gentiles couldn't misrepresent what they didn't have in the first place. Romans 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? ... 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that...

Because they are the firstfruit and the root. To them pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, the promises, whose are the fathers, and of whom Christ came. That's their calling. God hadn't called the Gentiles to that service. It has nothing...

They did. Chapter 1: Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleannes ... For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections ... God gave them over to a reprobate mind ... Chapter 11 (9-11 actually) just happens to be focusing on Israel and God's use of them for redemptive history.

Maybe you're making more out of "blindness in part" than the text actually does? God has not cast away Israel, vv. 1&2. The Israelites have not stumbled that they should fall, vs. 11. The "fullness of the Gentiles" serves to make mercy obtainable to the Isrealites, vs. 31.