That is not predestination. That is foreknowledge. You do not understand predestination, apparently. Seeing a choice that someone is going to make is not predestination.
Yet not everyone is saved. Or are you saying they are?
Wow - you haven't read Scripture have you? Once again, read Romans 9.
Once again, you do not understand the doctrine of grace - or the sovereignty of God or else you wouldn't be laughing about it.
I "assume" you refer to these verses.
Ro 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it,
Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make
one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Most calvinist interpret these verses to mean that God created/predestine some people for hell so that God could get "some kind of glory" out of destroying them in front of the saved.
First, Hell was created for Angels, no "image of God" (man) was predestine to hell.
Second, it contradicts God's will none perish.
Third, the "type of vessel" (honor/dishonor) man wants to be is left up to man, a "cistren" (vessel) that will hold Jesus's water (doctrine) or one that won't.
2Ti 2:21 If
a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
Jer 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
When you interpret these verse within the context of the whole scriptures, you'll find they are an "example/warning" to the lost rather than any "predestination" of some to perish, which would be a contradiction of "God's will".
"Abraham's believed", and "HIS FAITH" was counted as Righteousness,
Man, knowing Good/evil, has the ability to chose between them, same as Adam/Eve, those who choose the Good, (faith) God will save,
There's a purpose in God requiring a person to believe before he'll save, a purpose that doesn't exist under the doctrine of predestination.
Jos 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD,
choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
"NO PART" of Sin, Man's condemnation, or scripture describing such, can be interpreted as having been
"Predestined" by
"God's will",
Now read Roman 9 again. :wavey:
