A belief in man's free will is a remnant of the fallen ego. It isn't real. It's an illusion. We are living the thoughts of God one step behind Him.
No one says that's an easy concept to grasp since it goes against what we've been taught from pre-school. But logically as well as Scripturally, whatever exits does so because God has willed it into being and sustains it by His eternal purpose which He declared from before the foundation of the world.
It's a perspective that truly gives all glory to God.
UPON the whole, it is evident that the doctrine of God's eternal and unchangeable predestination should neither be wholly suppressed and laid aside, nor yet be confined to the disquisition of the learned and speculative only; but likewise should be publicly taught from the pulpit and the press, that even the meanest of the people may not be ignorant of a truth which reflects such glory on God, and is the very foundation of happiness to man. Let it, however, be preached with judgment and discretion, 1:e., delivered by the preacher as it is delivered in Scripture, and no otherwise. By which means, it can neither be abused to licentiousness nor misapprehended to despair, but will eminently conduce to the knowledge, establishment, improvement and comfort of them that hear. That predestination ought to be preached, I thus prove:-
Are you saying that we are no longer in God's image?