And as always I have shown how your ship ****ogy is nonsensical.So what we have then are two totally different factors to deal with as we address this question of salvation.
We have human free will.
We have God's sovereignty.
Now people can go nuts attempting to figure out how one can work with the other, and the truth is that its an unanswerable question as to the "how?"
What I have done in the past on this forum is to show people how I teach this is all kinda like the situation of being a p***inger on a large boat.
As a p***enger you have the limited freedom (free will) that is granted you by the ship's Skipper (The Lord).
With your freedoms you can walk around the deck of the boat to the left or to the right.
it does not matter...
Your freedom to choose for yourself does not at all change the overriding authority of the Skipper to control the true direction of the ship.
So you have what seems like a conflict,(your freedom and the Skipper's authority) working with each other, without getting in each other's way.
And in a small way this is kinda like the way our Human free will is able to work without problems with God's authority.
First, you never stated what the destination of the ship was??? If the destination is Heaven, then you would have everybody headed to the same place???? In your ****ogy and belief there would have to be two ships... Each with a different Skipper heading in opposite directions. Each Skipper would be telling its p***engers the same thing however, "You have freedom to sin all you want or do whatever you want because the ship's course will not change and you will end up at your destination regardless."
Second, if there is only one ship then the destination does not matter, nor would it matter if the ship just simply sat still. In essence, if I do not have the freedom to jump ship, then it is nothing more than a prison barge with the same instructions given to all inmates; that I can sin as much as I want on board the ship, but my destination once I get off the ship will not change. In other words, salvation will be forced on some against their will, and ****ation will come to others because God willed it so without any rhyme or reason to it.
Third.... Well there's no need for a third right now, because the first two observations makes your scenario or ****ogy so ridiculous there's no need to beat a dead dog which couldn't hunt anyway even when it was alive.
Now I know you are going to read this even though you said you won't, and yet not respond. But that will not matter to me, because this way you can not back-track and try to weasel out once again, yet your ridiculous ****ogy stands as a testament to the nonsense which is Faith alone and your understanding of predestination which goes with that belief.
God is not a God of confusion. Sometimes things seem to conflict and make no sense, because in reality they do conflict and are hence nonsensical.
Simply saying "it is a mystery" does not solve your paradoxes.