We know that God wins, God knows that God wins, Satan knows that God wins. Satan is literally required to give hints towards his evil (I bring this up because I've had someone ask 'what if Satan wrote the Bible?' well, it's because God wouldn't allow that. Deception of that level breaks free will. So if everyone knows that God wins and Satan is forced to disclose his evil, why does anyone choose Evil? I can't wrap my head around it. They know they lose and will suffer. If they repent they won't. How can someone choose eternal damnation?
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God predestined who will be "Called", saved from the eternal lake of fire, although we all have sinned some He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified."
Many, most will disobey the word as they were destined to do.
1 Peter 2:7-8: “‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,’ and ‘A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.’ They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.”
Romans 9:11: Jacob and Esau “were not yet born and had done nothing good or bad — in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works, but because of him who calls — she was told” — this is before they were born or had done anything good or evil — “‘the older will serve the younger.’ As it is written, ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.’” That is a quote from Malachi 1:2–3, which ought to be read in context where the text makes clear that God is sovereignly before they were born choosing Jacob over Esau, but showing that Esau’s wickedness was real and blameworthy and he was responsible for it.
Romans 9:22: “What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory.”