There are two words that theologians used that get some people all worked up and they are predestination and election. In some conversations those two word may not be the right words to use. Instead I look at it as God is big enough to do what ever he chooses if he wants to show you grace and make you his child he will. No one can ever become a Christian if God does not want them to be one, and no one can remain an unbeliever if God wants then to be a Christian. We are not more powerful than he is.
Romans 9: 9-13 is one of many places in the Bible that makes this point clear.
9For this is what the promise said: "About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son." 10And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac, 11though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls— 12she was told, "The older will serve the younger." 13As it is written,(V) "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."
God hates? It's in the Bible. Read all of Romans 9 and think about what control God has.
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