I have never suggested we didn’t make our choices.
But, I’ve also stated that God knows the saved and the unsaved, and He has known since before creation.
The BIBLE says, “those He foreknew He PREDESTINED.”
Perhaps some don’t like the Bible word “predestined”, but it is in there, and we do have to deal with it. It is not “predestining” anything to sit around fat dumb and happy while letting events unfold. That’s called being pushed around by circumstances outside your control.
“Predestining”, on the other hand, would be intentionally creating a world in which every conceivable course of action were already known.
I see what you are saying. I feel that Paul is speaking collectively of the church and christians when He says that things are predestined. That Christ does have a purpose for his church. Which I agree. I do not feel that it refers to individual persons. And again. God knows what’s going to happen, but doesn’t choose for us (I know you aren’t stating that, but I wanted to state it again).