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From the link you suggested I read:

"Yet you do not understand that God foresees from the beginning all that people do within time, that this divine foreknowledge is stable, but the works of humans within time are free. How can we reconcile the unchangeability of God's providence with the free self-determination of intelligent creatures? How is it that the immutability of divine decisions does not lead to inevitability? Why is it beyond question and not subject to chance? We must remove ourselves as far away as possible from these questions and quandaries of the scholars. These questions do not edify, but only confuse the mind. These quandaries do not enlighten, but only darken the intellect...Your predestination depends on the will of God and your will. The will of God is always ready. This means that things are determined only by your will."

That last sentence is worth repeating --

"This means that things are determined only by your will."

An assumption like this is the antithesis of Scriptural teaching, plain, simple, easy-to-understand, edifying Scripture.

"For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Not of works, lest any man should boast.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." -- Ephesians 2:8-10

Whose will ultimately determines our fate? By whose workmanship were we created? Whose work saves us?

"Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent." -- John 6:29

God is not ambiguous. What He does is clear. Why He does it is His business. Our job is to be grateful for His gift of grace through faith in Jesus Christ, to preach His word to all nations and races, to raise strong children who kneel to none but Christ, and to live lives that glorify His name, always certain of His promise:

"For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day." -- John 6: 38-39

Life is not unfolding haphapzardously. Life is being lived exactly as God has ordained from before the foundation of the world.

If you possess Trinitarian faith in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior you are most probably saved, by the grace of God alone. That's what Scripture tells us and I believe it, by the will of God alone.

Others may prefer to heed the voices of men and not Scripture. Some always have. The fact remains all men are led by their hearts, some still dead in sin, some regenerated by His will for His glory and to the everlasting joy of His flock.

"But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life." -- Titus 3:4-7

It's a constant bemusement to see how men try to clutter up the things of God. It's sooo much simpler than some would have it. But men love to have control over other men, and do not give it up without a fight.

The real sadness is that some submit so readily. I urge anyone to return to the Bible and read for themselves. It's all there, by the work of the Holy Spirit.

No king but Christ.