Romans 10:13 For everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.
Romans 10:10-12 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in Him will not be put to shame. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing His riches on all who call on Him.
It is you who through your interpretation create a contradiction. Roman 10:13 is one of the most misinterpreted and misused scriptures in the entire Bible. And it is done so in order to support the heresy of choice resulting in salvation, and undermine the doctrine of election. Here is how it goes, provided any would even bother to see if and where they are creating contradictions, but since you named one, we will go with that; Eph 2:8-9 clearly says it is by grace and not works, so what we will do is simply insist that choosing Christ is not a work. And everywhere the Bible says predestination, election, etc. we will move what it is referring to, individuals, and say no, no, it is election in some other way or for some other reason than God doing it, or applied to something else. It is exactly what you do even though you also say you were saved because you did what you needed to do to be saved. If God won't save you until you meet certain requirements, and so you do those requirements, you have earned God's love and you have earned your salvation. Saying that is not not a work will not change the fact that it is. There is nothing is that set of verses that remotely mentions anything about choosing Christ first. It says believe. Confesses with the mouth is not an avenue of salvation as the altar call promotes, but something we do because we have been saved, and can only truly do when we are saved. If calling on Him meant that was all it took for Him to redeem, then there would be a great many people that called on Him when they were desperate, (atheists often do irony of irony) or even as an expletive, but believe nothing of Christ, in the kingdom.
Eph 2:8-9 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast,
Eph 2:4-7 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ---by grace you have been saved---and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Whose grace?
Who does the doing?
Who has the gift to give and gives it?
Who loved and who did He love?
When did He do this?
What did He do?
Why did He do it?
