I believe NOTHING happens outside the plan and approval of God..
He counts every hair on your head ...so do you thnk he does not care or is indifferent to what you write?
Matthew 10:30 - And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
OP answered it on the other half of this thread -- What's it called "Part 2" ... something like that.
I'm glad you answered.
I've always wondered if the decree prceded everything else in the calvinist explanation. (Is the decree the same as "the plan?")