If a person avows predestination because they believe they have no control on their destiny, Jesus’ ministry becomes a charade. And responsibility only a word.
If a person disavows predestination, they deny the Scriptures. Responsibility is what God wants it to be, not what our arrogance demands.
Jesus’ ministry was intended to teach the Jews that in spite of what they thought about righteousness, they would not, could not do it. Read through the so-called Sermon on the Mount. Encyclopedic interpretation has long taken this to be “a lesson in Christian living”. Nothing could be further from the truth. He was thwarting their sense of self-produced holiness.
Eventually, even the disciples would cry out, “Then who can be saved?” Aaahhh. What is impossible with man is possible with God.
You and I are responsible, alright. It is just that we cannot escape the condemnation of that responsibility unless He decides to blow life into our toe-tag dead souls.