Updated: 2026-09-18

Predestination is something that means something different to humans than it does for God in the context of the Bible, and it needs to be aligned. When you hear about this you'll say like - that doesn't sound fair, does it? The thought behind it tempts to think like God just picks out or plans for a person He chooses for that person to be one of His and be glorified. And in that sense it would not be fair. But it is not just like that at all.

The Bible does talk about predestination several times. Like in Romans 8:28-30: 

²⁸ And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. ²⁹ For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. ³⁰ Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.

We have take into account that God knew you before you were. Meaning before you even existed, God knew you. That is something huh? The Bible says also, that God saw the beginning and the end. This should trigger you to think that God saw all of history and the future before it was/is.

Thus God not only not knew you before you were, but He already know what you did and are about to do. It is just that we are still in the time living it - living our lives and decisions, but for God it already happened. 

So God everything already happened from beginning to end, and He was there to witness all of it. In this context He already knew whom He would accept into His kingdom, and that is why God can say that He "predestined" people to be in His realm. The choices these people made in their lives was for God reason to allow them to be reborn and be glorified because they'd be in the image of Jesus Christ. 

That is how I see predestination in the full picture. 

See also Ephesians 1:3-11:

³ Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, ⁴ just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, ⁵ having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, ⁶ to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.

⁷ In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace ⁸ which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, ⁹ having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, ¹⁰ that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. ¹¹ In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, ¹² that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.

So, before the foundation of the world, God knew His people, those whom He would choose, those whom He would adopt into His Kingdom, those whom He would form into the image of Christ for His glory. 

Why is this fair? Because you cannot blame God for what He already knew. But, it is you who still has to makes your choices, you still have free will. So, don't wait, repent. Because Christ's return is near. Amen.