Predestination
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The thought is, since God is infinite and God knows everything, then He knows what's going to happen and who will, and will not, turn to Him.  Some say that our lives are all planned out before we're born and we just follow a predetermined path; that we still make choices, but God knows what choices we'll make.  I've never been comfortable with this idea.  I think there's more free will to it than that.

Some use the predestination idea to build feelings of security by saying that everything is God's will, so why worry about anything.  If you're a predestination extremist, after you fall down the stairs, you thank God it's over, since it was predestined to happen anyway.  I'm especially uncomfortable with people who say they're special, and were chosen by God to be saved, and that the guy over there has no chance.  He was doomed before he was born.

I think we have to go look for God, and that people can change if conditions are right.  If we ask, it will be given, but if we don't ask, then it will be beyond our understanding.  It's the world in general that has a predetermined destiny.  If God just put everything in front of us and proved it, then we wouldn't choose Him out of free will and we wouldn't struggle to improve, we'd just do things because that was the rule, or that was the way things were meant to be.

I think we have to decide what we want, or want to try to do, and then choose a path, and that God gives good advise on which path to follow.

2 Peter 3:9-10
9  The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness.  He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
10  But the day of the Lord will come like a thief.  The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare.

1 Tim 2:3-4
3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior,
4 who wants all men to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

Luke 8:9-10
10  He said, "The knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to others I speak in parables, so that,  "`though seeing, they may not see; though hearing, they may not  understand.'"

John 6:44
44  No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Here's one where God says he must go down and see what's happening.  It's contrary to saying everything is pre-determined.
Gen 18:20-21
20  Then the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous
21  that I will go down and see if what they have done is as bad as the outcry that has reached me. If not, I will know."

Eccl 9:11-12
11  I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all.
12  Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.

God does know what's happening, and while justice on earth can be hard to find, ultimately, we lead the life we choose and get what we deserve, good or bad.
Heb 4:12
12  For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
13  Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

2 Cor 5:10
10  For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.