It is clear from Scripture that God knows in advance that a Savior will be needed, and that He has prepared the perfect Lamb before the foundation of the earth. He knows the Ending from before the Beginning, and to Him time is not linear but multidimensional and foreknown. This means that He knows all our choices throughout our lives, and He can choose those who are going to become willing to turn to Him for Life, without being forced or coerced. Do you have a problem with the idea that God knows in advance who will become His, and predestines them to be "in Christ," since they will eventually come to ask for or receive the Savior? Doesn't that fit with what the Bible says about foreknowledge and predestination, while still allowing for free will?Although it is difficult to be confident that God's future promises to us are only available if we are willing, we can take comfort in knowing that His promises are certain. This is because He not only knows the future intimately, but He also controls every aspect of it. Therefore, we can have confidence that if we ask for anything in His name, He will either grant it to us or He will order events in such a way that His promise is fulfilled--regardless of our willingness. We can view future promises to us as they have already happened, since God has the power to make them a reality.This is why we believe that our past extends beyond our birth. We view our purpose on this earth as God has told us. If we were not present when we were decreed to be born unto our ultimate end then we can be confident that this life does not depend upon us as if confidence depended upon our decisions. But in our past is in His counsel from all eternity. And in this sense we were chosen from our birth even tho we had not yet received our salvation.We were protected by God even though we were still in our sins. This suggests that we have a fundamental belief that we know God from eternity past, and that our lives are supernatural because our salvation is in God, who has always existed. This relationship to our Father is communicated to us in His view that He does not remember the sins of our youth, since He has ordered our lives from eternity.