It's not an either/or issue for me. Thank you so much for thinking of me in posting your comments! I admire you very much.
"It's not an either/or issue for me."
Nor is it for me. That's why Paul says Phl 4:8-9 "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things [are] honest, whatsoever things [are] just, whatsoever things [are] pure, whatsoever things [are] lovely, whatsoever things [are] of good report; if [there be] any virtue, and if [there be] any praise, think on these things. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you." Free will or not, predestined or not, Think and Do! and the God of Peace shall be with you.