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I mean does God plan every single thing that happens in life? And I mean everything, not just saved people. It seems like the Bible teaches we do not have a free will (Ephesians 1:11-12) but common sense proves we do have a free will: God gets angry with sin in the Bible, why would you plan something and get angry over what you planned? You can't get angry at what you planned, otherwise you would not have planned it. And if we didn't have a free will why would we be punished for sin? Wouldn't that be like putting a gun in a baby's hands, making her shoot by pushing her finger against the trigger to make her kill someone and then punish her for killing someone? The common sense alone makes me believe we do have a free will, this would mean I am taking biblical teaches of no free will the wrong way.
Here is the verse you are quoting:
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Yes! God has predestined us ALL to come to Him, and He draws all of us to Him. However, If we are made in God's image, as it says in Genesis 1:26, that means that WE have free will, because God has free will.
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