So, why all the question marks?
You posted those very words. This is your view of salvation - some are lucky, and some ain’t, and we don’t know who is and who ain’t.
You speak as if you know, but you don’t know. You are guessing like the rest of us.
You are going to seriously lead someone to think that the saved are predestined, and that free will doesn’t matter, in love or salvation. It was all written, and we are just living the playback.
They aren’t predestined. WE GET TO CHOOSE. Judas wasn’t a patsy - he chose too, just like Peter did. Both betrayed Jesus, and worse, Peter knew better.
No, this is the Biblical view of salvation, as evidenced by the many verses from Scripture I've offered.
They aren't predestined. WE GET TO CHOOSE.
Unregenerated man will always choose sin and the regenerated man will choose righteousness.
Regeneration by God's grace through faith is a gift given by God to whom He will. A man must be born again, not by the will of the flesh, or of the will of man, but by the will of God through the work of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." -- Ephesians 1:4-6 "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
We are "made accepted in Christ" by God's grace, for God's glory.
Judas wasn't a patsy - he chose too, just like Peter did. Both betrayed Jesus, and worse, Peter knew better.
How did "Peter know better?" Was Peter a "better" human being than Judas? Did God give Peter something He withheld from Judas?
"For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?" -- 1 Corinthians 4:7