I see another point there, it's pre-destination.
I actually think that one may introduce the pre-destination concept into the discussion not to make thing clearer but to make the point more confusing. Remove the pre-destination introduced as noone actually understands what pre-destination is. So you are looping yourself into the unknown for your own confusion. That's my piece of advice.
Of course, if you are His sheep, you will in the end answer His call. While whatever in the end, it's your own choice. God will you, you choose to to accept or reject. In the end, it's your choice, no matter what is said about the concept of pre-destination.
God wants your worships and God wants your faith.
You are skeptical, but base on what you will justify that. Isn't that your rationale that you are using to do the justification? It's not something wrong to use your rationale. The point is, which is your preference? To build your reasoning on your faith or to build your faith on your reasoning. It's foretold that you may be doomed if you choose the latter approach.
You simply ate too much from the Tree of Knowledge that you rely fully on it to do your justification, and simply ignore the presence of the Tree of Life. And thus you may fail to find the Tree of Life and may die your second death. Is it the Tree of Knowledge a bad thing at all? Not necessary. It's your approach that might be the problem. I however choose to allow the co-existence of both Trees and thus build my reasoning on my faith but not vice versa.
Hope it helps.
Hidden meaning:
I don't beleive God unless I am persuaded by strong evidence (as judged by my rationale)
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I don't want to give out faith, regarding to the topic of Christianity
While God said in the whole Bible:
God wants your faith, and you will be only be saved by faith.
To conclude, God says that we will be saved by faith but I just don't want to give out faith. So the ultimate question:
How can you be saved? A question decided and answered by only you yourself.
Edited by Hawkins, : No reason given.