Predestination or free will?

again sounds like your puffing yourself up as someone special.

I pray you see it.

Your argument is falling apart, so you're resorting to "nobody can understand".

We CAN understand, and God WANTS us to understand.

A slave such as I is not special at all, Jesus is the only special One. We live to serve and glorify Him in all that we do

we believ God has revealed what He wants us to know about Him in His Word the Holy Bible. But there are things we can't comprehend in our current fallen state so we just trust and obey Him in all that He does and we believe he will reveal everything to us at His appointed time.

I feel sorry for you.

God desires us to have faith

Not blind faith.

Your puffing up your status and your slavery and election. I am sure to you it does not sound that way, but try to put yourself in other peoples shoes and listen to yourself.

You will not see me do this, You will not even hear me talk about me, You will hear me praise God and him alone.

Thats right, i got a second chance after rejecting Christ, too

Alright everyone, you are all overthinking on this topic. Yes, the elect were called to serve from before the foundation of the world. Predestination is real. Still it does not take away our choices. It just states that God knows our choices, good and bad. A person can serve the Lord all his life and draw back sometime by persecution or maybe bitterness. Like Solomon did. We shouldn't even think about what God knows and just work at obeying Him. Don't give yourself a choice tomorrow, fix your heart on God and serve Him though He slay you.

All you that say our works will not save us: that is true. But if we are truly saved our lives will have works. True faith God will put to work. What have you done for God lately? What has God done through you lately?

You missed the point, we don't sin as the reprobate do. They sin because that's all they can do, they don't have any power against it, where as we sin because we fall into sin unwittingly by accident. We are not given over to a life of sin, without fighting against the temptation.
We are at war with our flesh, which is still corrupt util we receive our glorified bodies.
So there's a huge difference between the elect and the reprobate, one is at war with sin and the other is in love with sin.

Oh boy. You need to learn what sin is my friend

Anyone and everyone sins for one purpose. they are trying to fulfill the flesh.

When a non believer chooses to serve self over the needs of others, they sin, because they want to

When a believer chooses to serve self over the needs of others, they do so because they want to.

a non believer can even love others, Just not the way God did, as scripture says, Even gentiles can do good. who have no law.

Romans 2:14

for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves,

You are both right to a point. Yes, we are at war with our sinful natures and we will slip and sin. See answer below.
You are lumping occasional sin with apostasy. Those that seek the way of the spirit will usually check the sin while it is in their head, before carrying it out. There is no condemnation for them (Rom. 8:1).
Sometimes they will actually commit the sin when their guard is down but as soon as they recognize it as sin, they repent and stop. Still no condemnation.

Now apostasy is different. Here, self justification is the culprit and the devil is very good helping with that. Once you start justifying yourself you will soon need to start making excuses for your actions. The effect starts snowballing, sin then cover up, sin and cover up, unless you can or will turn it around you become apostate.

Some of Gods elect commit murder, adultery and all kinds of sin but they don't lose their salvation if they repent. Just read your Bible and you will see plenty of cases. God know that we will continue to fall into sin, that's why Jesus paid for all of our past, present and future sins. You would know all of this is true if you studied your Bible

D......,

Predestination is not comprehensible or compatible with scriptures, given G-d's plan of forgiveness and individual responsibility under His plan.

My views
I see predestination as a “Blue print” of God’s Divine plan/purpose of His Will for our lives as we walk on this earth.
Predestination for a sinner,is the cross for God is a righteous Judge
For a believer, Gods predestination is His Divine/Will plan (formed before the foundation of the world Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world………..)
For our lives to which He knows we can accomplish.
As with the sinner, it is our Will to either follow or reject God’s Will. God cannot as with Satan force our Will, it must be our own decision (free Will)
The irony of it all, Jesus who is the Word who became flesh surrendered His Will to the Father: Matthew 26:39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

God Bless

Don't give yourself a choice tomorrow <-- do not worry about tomorrow, for each day have enough trouble of it's own (Matthew 6)

book of life
therefore, predestination is true
ta da

free will exist
we can choose either to reject or place our faith in the gospel

God transcend time, so the book of life can be before, during, or after salvation, doesn't matter

predestination is true + free will exist = both

discussion over ...
... um, what is this about other topics like "sin" and all that?