Judas Iscariot was unrepentant of his sin of stealing from the money box this "choice" he made allowed Satan the ability to possess him so that he betrayed Jesus. The apostle Paul on the other hand was unrepentant about sinning against Christians, but Jesus knowing Paul's heart, devinely intervened and personally requested Paul to follow him. Any thoughts on whether salvation is a choice or fate?
Lucifer was created perfect in his ways until iniquity was found in him, because God gave the angels a choice, and some rebelled.
God made man upright, but they sought out many inventions, and Adam and Eve were created knowing God, and having a relationship with Him, and God created them in the image that He would show up in the future, for Adam was made in the image of God, and the New Testament says Adam was made in the figure of Him to come who is Jesus.
But God gave them a choice which is why the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was in the garden.
Many are called but few are chosen, so God calls a person, and chooses them on earth.
God's kingdom is true love so there is a choice, and He is not evil to condemn people that have no choice but to reject truth, so God choosing without our choice goes against the nature of God.
If we do not have a choice then God would of not created the earth, for the earth serves no purpose without choice, for God would of created people to be with Him directly, and the result would be the same for they do not participate in their salvation.
The fact we have to have faith is testimony that we have a choice, and God commands all people everywhere to repent.
Predestined to salvation means that God already had the plan to give the world salvation before he laid down the foundation of the world, so it is the same as if they have salvation in the beginning, which the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the world.
But this salvation is to whoever wants that salvation, for God wants all people to repent, acknowledge the truth, and be saved, and the Spirit and bride say Come, and anybody can have that salvation, and Jesus lights every person born in this world.
Also God is no respecter of persons, and the Bible says what makes you to differ from another person, and there is no difference between the Jew and the Gentile, and if you offend in the least of the law you offend in all, and all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.
So God views all people the same as a sinner in need of salvation, and if the people that say God chose them without their choice are a sinner like everybody else then why would God chose them, and not others if all are sinners, and God is no respecter of persons.
No person says Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.
No person comes to the Son unless the Father draws them.
God chose us we did not choose Him.
When God calls a person He will work in their life to get them to the truth, but when they get to the door of truth they have to go through it, for God's kingdom is love, but no person would of gotten to the door of truth unless God intervened in their life when He called them.
And this truth is to abstain from sin by the Spirit, for the Lord knows them that are His having this seal, for this is what seals the saints, and how they are led of the Spirit, that everyone that names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
But some do not go through the door of truth, for some are lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness, by denying the power thereof, ever learning and never able to come to the truth.
A person can blaspheme against the Son, the flesh, the man Christ Jesus, but cannot blaspheme against the Spirit.
Paul did not blaspheme against God, but went against the man Christ Jesus believing He was not the Messiah, and when Jesus got a hold of him then he followed Jesus believing He was Lord and Savior.
