Do you have any explanation for God predestining people to hell? Why would one believe that God programs people to do evil and says that those he programmed to do evil will then be pushed into hell forever -- isn't that psychopathic -- why does your believe it?
The problem is you don't seem to "get it" that the ONLY reason anyone CAN say they are saved is because God promised it. Among many other such verses, look at I John 5:13 - "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God so that you may know you have eternal life..". It's not "self-declaring" anything but declaring trust in the promises of God. To deny that is "self-declaring" you know better than God and you are calling him a liar. In fact, John talked about people like you, "He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son. And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. (I John 5:10,11)
Do you have any explanation for God predestining people to hell? Why would one believe that God programs people to do evil and says that those he programmed to do evil will then be pushed into hell forever -- isn't that psychopathic -- why does your believe it?
All I can explain is what the Bible clearly says. I don't come right out and say "God programs people to hell", mainly because Scripture says it is God's will that all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. Yet, we know not all do. Did God KNOW before someone was born whether or not they would be saved? Yes, you can't believe in an all-knowing God and doubt he didn't know, can you? How all that works, I don't claim to understand it all, but I DO know one day it will all make sense. I can wait and trust God in the meantime. Will you?