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Predestined

Predestined there are those who would love to say that predestined means that there are those who have been predestined to go to hell and those who are predestined to be saved. And with this line of thinking there is no free will. That it is the plan of God to send who he chooses to hell and save who he chooses. And they use scriptures such as God has given some of us to Jesus already, or that Jesus loved us first.

The Bible teaches that God already knows the ending. The Bible teaches God already knows what we will and will not do.

God has already seen what we will do in our lives, he already knows the choices we will make even before we make them. God already knows who loves him and try to be obedient, we are going to mess up in some fashion.

That is where the predestined comes in, he already has seen the end and those who made choices according to his ways, those who loved him are those who fall under the category of predestined.

One can say we're just living out in present time what God has already seen us live out in our future time.
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Adstar · 56-60, M
He has predestined based upon his foreknowledge..

29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Gods foreknowledge determined His predestination... lots of Calvinists for some reason cannot read this and understand...
Charity · 61-69
@Adstar. AMEN

I'm not familiar with Calvinist and the differences in their beliefs. It seems pretty clear that God that he already knows the outcome.