You’ve expressed something I have long thought about, and better than I ever did.
Basically, I am a Calvinist. But while I believe that God has foreknowledge of our eternal fate, I cannot accept predestination. God gave us freewill, but he knows how we will use it.
It is a contradiction that I cannot readily resolve, so I just accept it. One day I will ask God Himself about it.
An existence of multiple dimensions beyond our personal understanding could explain the story. Having experience in engineering and knowing that there is more than one perspective to look at the same phenomenon of interest mathematically, shows me that such a thing is within realm of possibility. We are participants in a picture that embraces both decision and destiny in such a way that it meets the constraints of all divine promises. It is the glory of God that He does not have to violate either and puts a full understanding, as the psalmist says, to be “too wonderful for me.”
Basically, I am a Calvinist. But while I believe that God has foreknowledge of our eternal fate, I cannot accept predestination. God gave us freewill, but he knows how we will use it.
It is a contradiction that I cannot readily resolve, so I just accept it. One day I will ask God Himself about it.
The second revelation came with the understanding that if I chose God, I ALSO HAVE THE POWER TO UNCHOSE GOD. The is no security of salvation if I do the choosing, I am fickle. But if God choses, His word is good.
So how do you know God chose you? You are hungry for His word. Your life begins to change in many small ways and some big ways.
If you life hasn’t changed, you did the choosing...............