cont.   It also suggests a choice.   You can choose to believe or not believe.   Like I said my God and my Jesus gave us free-will.  Did yours?  Or are you just an automation going through what you are dictated to?   Are you really just some sort of robot that is pre-programmed?  Have you read what Calvin did in his life?  How he burnt people at the stake if they did not believe exactly as he wanted them to believe?
I prefer to believe in a Jesus who gave me free will.   I ask you was Jonah one of the elect in the Old Testament?   Did God give him a choice on going immediately to Ninevah?   If he did not, where do we get the story of the large fish (whale to some)?  
Yes, predestination is in the Bible, but then so is free-will.   I truly do not see how you can read the Bible and not see where people are making choices.