Predestination?

Please read the following verse carefully:

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

(John 3:16)

            This is perhaps the most well-known verse in the Bible; yet, many “Christians” deny it. How, by saying that “whosoever believes’ is not true -- they say only the predestined are saved. Of course, the folks that say that are so arrogant that they always place themselves among the predestined!

            The conditions for salvation are predestined - not who will love God enough to meet those conditions. God is loving and merciful but He is also just. He will destroy a third of the angels along with Satan because they will not submit their will to their Creator. You and I are required to make that same choice - His will or our own. You can follow your will to death or follow His will to eternal life. That my friend is predestined. What did Jesus say?

It is not who is predestined - it is whose love for God endures:

And you shall be hated of all for my name's sake: but he that endures to the end shall be saved.

(Matthew 10:22)

But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

(Matthew 24:13)

And you shall be hated of all for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

(Mark 13:13)