God is sovereign and He created all things. But, do we have free will? Does God predestine people for hell?

We used Google to ask the following :Date: 01-09-2026 – query: ‘can free will and destiny coexist’
‘Below we display the search results including ( if applicable ) our mark-ups in  ‘green italics‘

AI Results : 

Yes, many philosophical and theological views argue fate and free will can coexist, often by defining them as different aspects of life, like fate setting the destination and free will determining the path, or by seeing them as interwoven forces, where your choices (free will) create your destiny (fate). However, traditional viewpoints often see them as mutually exclusive, suggesting if everything is fated, free will is an illusion, and vice-versa.

How they can coexist (Compatibilist Views)

Paths to the Same End: You have free will to choose between many options, but all those options ultimately lead to a predetermined final outcome (fate).
The Journey, Not the Destination: Fate might set general life events, but your choices (free will) dictate how you experience or navigate those events.
Cause and Effect: Your free choices and actions (free will) are the very factors that create your destiny, making them intertwined rather than opposing forces.
Religious Frameworks: Many faiths propose God’s divine plan (fate) encompasses human choice (free will), with humans making real decisions that fulfill a larger, pre-known purpose.

Why they are seen as conflicting (Incompatibilist Views)

Determinism: If every event, including your decisions, is a predetermined outcome of past events (determinism), then true free will—the ability to choose otherwise—doesn’t exist.
Absolute Predetermination: If fate dictates everything, your feeling of making choices is just a reaction, undermining moral responsibility and genuine choice.
Ultimately, whether fate and free will coexist depends heavily on how you define each concept, with many perspectives finding harmony by viewing them as complementary aspects of human experience and destiny.

We have reviewed this Ai response and it appears in line with our understanding, which is limited to the study we have done over the years and we are not experts.  We are learning still as well always.

When it comes to predestination…what is our opinion?

Our concern is to be biblical – to be true to Scripture as far as we understand. To be labeled as Calvinistic or otherwise does not concern us; to be Christ’s disciples does. You do not have to accept our position, as each one of us will give an account of himself to God.
We don’t think it’s ultimately a smart thing to tell God that because He is sovereign that ‘God made me do it’.

[James 1:13 KJV]
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. [Romans 14:12 KJV]
I believe that God knows all and knows the outcome, but that He prepared Hell for the devil and His angels, but He takes no pleasure in sending anyone to hell.
[Matthew 25:41 KJV]
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
[Matthew 18:14 KJV]
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.
[2 Peter 3:9 KJV]
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

[Ezekiel 18:25 KJV]
Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

[Ezekiel 18:26 KJV]
When a righteous [man] turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

[Ezekiel 18:27 KJV]
Again, when the wicked [man] turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

[Ezekiel 18:28 KJV]
Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

[Ezekiel 18:29 KJV]
Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?

[Ezekiel 18:30 KJV]
Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn [yourselves] from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.

[Ezekiel 18:31 KJV]
Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?
[Ezekiel 18:32 KJV]
For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD: wherefore turn [yourselves], and live ye.