The Hinge On God's Salvation Door To Heaven

Is indispensable to an open door

Predestination is true only if hinged on the omniscient (all knowing) foreknowledge of God eternally before the world even began, and before He created mankind in His own image and likeness. God foreknew every future person's free willed belief or unbelief in Jesus Christ as their Savior. God's election and fore ordination hinge on predestination and predestination hinges on His foreknowledge which is embedded in His "Omniscience". His eternally foreknown plan to create humankind in his own    "image and likeness"    ... with knowledge, power, presence, and freewill dominion, included giving us a tiny bit of His own Omniscience (knowledge), His Omnipotence (power), His Omnipresence (space occupied) and Omnidominion (freewill rule) unlimited and universal with God but constricted to earth's atmosphere for man. A human may go into outer space but he certainly doesn't rule there.
See Gen.1:26 for confirmation.

God's eternal foreknowledge IS predestination.

"But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory." 1 Cor.2:7.

"According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be (made) holy and without blame before him in love." Eph. 1:4.

"Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began." 2 Tim.1:9."

God's all knowing Omniscience includes knowing every universal, eternal detail of eternity past, present and future... foreknowledge of it before the beginning.     "In the beginning GOD ...." Gen.1:1.   He was already there and had been forever.        

"...From the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I...." Isa.48:16.    He is eternally omnipresent.

Here are seven reasons predestination is hinged on God's foreknowledge and not simply by His rejection of one sinner, and choosing of an equally guilty sinner, with no consideration of His foreknowledge of their yet future choices in life. 

1. If a predestined to be unsaved baby died before birth, or as an infant ... it would go to hell for eternity, having done no sin and having not heard the gospel and having had no opportunity to believe and accept Christ as its Savior. That is a concept totally

inconsistent with our loving and holy God.

2. Since most of the world's non-Christian population of people, who will never believe on Christ and are predestined to hell, and those, fewer in number, who are predestined to believe, are already appointed to hell or heaven, if by God's choosing alone, what is the urgency or need for Missionaries and preachers to tell them of Christ? Again, totally inconsistent with God.

3. If Salvation is predestined by God's rejection of one sinner and acceptance of another, equally guilty sinner, without consideration of His foreknowledge of their own future choices, there is no need for their hearing of Christ, His gospel or the Bible. That false premise neutralizes the urgency of the great commission.

4. The Bible declares many times that "God is no respecter of persons"...    "For there is no respect of persons with God." Rom. 2:11.    He respects truth, faith, and obedience but not one sinner above another sinner... He is without respect of persons. To show respect of persons in salvation, would make those many statements of fact a lie.

5. If God's election and selection is based on His "respect of persons" rather than His eternal foreknowledge of each of our own belief or unbelief in Christ, then the words of Jesus that "whosoever will" is a false promise. 
"Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man...." Matt.7:24.   "And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Rev.22:17.     Faith is not a "work" but a spiritual response to God     
  
6. If God sends people to hell or heaven based strictly on his rejection of one sinner and love of another, equally guilty sinner, without regard to their "will" to believe ... or not believe, then the words of Jesus in Jn.3:16 that God loves the whole world, are not true ....     
  "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

7. If salvation were not based upon God's fore-knowledge, but upon His "respect of persons"... what of the centuries of Africans, native South Americans and Asians who never heard the gospel of Christ before missionaries were finally sent to those places? Were all of them predestined to hell or heaven simply by God's choosing? Or were each of them judged by God's fore-knowledge of their individual, future belief or unbelief if or when they would hear it and believe or deny? Since God fore-knew those who would believe, if they heard, wouldn't He have sent some believer to cross their paths with the gospel? And since He also knew who would not believe, anyway, why should He send a witness to them? 

Regardless... Salvation is   "By grace (not works) through faith   (a sinners only channel of reception) are ye saved; And that not of yourselves (your goodness) it is the gift (paid for by Jesus) of God: Not of works ...." Eph.2:8.   Faith is not works. It is a spiritual response to God.