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Yes, but I have the ability to choose to love my parents. I do have control over what I am held responsible for. God does not make all my decisions for me.

God has designed you with a certain set of preferences so He as the creator of YOU knows exactly how you will react in EVERY situation. ( remember the genetics study?)

You believe in irresistible grace, right? That is nothing more than forced love, an oxymoron.

Do you believe that YOU can resist the will of God?

Rom 9:19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

Rom 9:20 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?

Rom 9:21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

Is it important to you to be able to set your pride against Gods sovereignty ?

...so He as the creator of YOU knows exactly how you will react in EVERY situation.

I know he does. But knowing everything isn't controlling everybody. One unexplainable mystery of God is that he uses men complete with free will to absolutely and completely accomplish his perfect, predestined plan down to the tee. Take the Tower Of Babel, for example. They tried to build a stairway to heaven, but God knocked it down. They did not get the final outcome they had planned, in their free will, they chose to go against God's will.

Do you believe that YOU can resist the will of God?

People do it every day. They sin. And yes, I do sin too. (Though I haven't in quite some time now. Just kidding.)(MR. Goofy Grape)

Rom 9:19-21

I'm not even going to pretend to know what these verses mean in their context. I have not really bothered to study them out. However, would you say that God is the author of sin. If indeed he does make some vessels to dishonor, does this mean that he predetermines sin?