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Since I'm not a member of any organized religion, perhaps you will find my comments either naive, ignorant or perhaps offensive. I checked the Center for Reformed Theology and found, as I suppose I suspected that you use as proofs, your own catechism. OK, based upon this understanding, you feel that the arguments you propose are correct.

Unfortunately, this is proving a theory by believing it. That would be akin to superstition i.e. I believe my sources are right, therefore I don't have to think beyond that point.

I would argue that we human beings are powerful spiritual creatures of God temporarily housed in human form. We are here for a purpose. If God did not endow us with free will, what would be the pint of being here. We would be puppets on a spritual string. If in fact we are made in the image and likeness of God, then we must have free will. That God, who is limitless beyond our ability to comprehend gave us free will, he knows what we will do, but he allows us tto choose. Our very nature proves that we must use reason (our higher powers) to get to God. If He pre-ordained our fate, we have no free will and all life is futile.

I checked the Center for Reformed Theology and found, as I suppose I suspected that you use as proofs, your own catechism.

Sorry, that makes no sense.

Scripture (KJV) makes up the only proof-texting offered at reformed.org for the Westminster Confession of Faith of 1646 which is what I repeatedly reference.

Do you know how to read footnotes?