God knows all that will ever happens, But He did not derterined to directly cause all that happened!!
He predestins the elect, but the Lost He allows thei lost state to continue...
Things such as the Cross are predestined, must happn, an other thingswill happen and God knows anoutthem and allows them t happen. Bein soverign means tha He can freely choice to stop anything as He deems shoul do such at any time.
He already had predestined an dtermined tha the death of Jesus wouldb the answer to the Fall. Wether He did that before/afte the Fall is a Cal in house debte!
Netter example would be all people decied freely to jump off building, but God decided to send a lader dow fo some, and the rest rejected that help ad just jumped!
How do you get the predestination stated in Ephesians 1 for the elect without having that same predestination for those who are not elect?
In fact, the Bible says that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. Unless God intervenes we are all predestined to eternal hell. That's very much biblical. Those for whom God chooses redemption and adoption have that original destination changed by God's merciful choice.
It is inconceivable that predestination is only for the elect and not for the damned. You are ignoring logic and the Bible.
I do not understand your question. Do I believe that everything is preordained? Yes. Ordination does not mean that God causes it, but that it occurs within God's providential reign. Even those things that God did not cause (Adam's sin, for example) were preordained (this is why Arminianism holds that the Fall was "ordained" rather than "decreed"). But men are also free to choose their "path". By the way, Calvinism itself has never denied human free agency. In fact, the Canons of Dort affirm the free agency of men.
Here is where we agree:
1. Men choose freely
2. God made man a free agent so that He could love God willingly
3. Men never come to God unwillingly, they come because this is their desire (I'd add, their utmost desire)
Here is where I think we may disagree:
I believe that God is omniscient and knew before Creation that man would sin. God, knowing this, of his own free spoke the universe into existence. God knew that if Adam was put in the Garden Adam would sin. But it was God's will to plant a Garden and place Adam there. And this is what God did. God was not surprised when Adam sinned. It was what God knew would happen (I believe in divine omniscience...that God is all knowing). But Adam's sin came from Adam when he was tempted by his own lusts, and this gave birth to sin. Adam acted freely to sin, but God could have (if it was his desire) prevented Adam from sinning.
The bible states that we are predestined to Heaven by God, but those lost to Hell God permits them, He permits them to go to Hell due to Him predestinate the end result but not directly sending them there Himself!
Nonelost can say God forced/caused me to go there!