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Her choice is to deny Christ.
While I can't speak for shrafinator, I doubt that it is entirely her choice. I used to be a Christian (of the fundamentalist, evangelical kind). I never chose to become an atheist -- I wanted very much to remain a Christian, and I fought the loss of my faith very hard.
The problem with the "mainstream" evangelical ideology is that it cannot accept the idea that people may be damned to eternal torment for something beyond their control -- that is why there is this idea that somehow non-believers must "know", deep in their hearts, that God and Jesus are real, and that they must willingly choose to deny God. It's not to convince us non-believers of anything -- we, after all, know what we believe -- it is to allow the believers to sleep at night.