Have you ever wondered if there was a place you could go where the cops and the media and the NSA could neither go nor investigate if they got there?
Have you ever wondered if the Devil can "read your mind" and know what you are inwardly thinking, especially if you don't form the words with your mouth as to what you are inwardly thinking?
Have you ever wondered if God knows what you are going to decide before you decide it?
One at a time, please.
It has been said, or at least inferred, that:
If you want to keep your secret secret, never tell anyone that you have that secret, and if you do not want to keep it secret by doing that, telling them that you want to keep your secret secret.
Why would either you the reader or I the author want to keep a secret secret against and away from the police, the media, the NSA, the Devil, and any other sentient entity (except God)?
Simple:
For self-preservation in certain circumstances under certain conditions, because both [questionable] police and [obviously-more-than-questionable] Satan and others might or definitely would then intend to harm or destroy what or who we do not want harmed or destroyed?
There will, in the future, be the ultimate fulfillment of the alluded-to "white stone" access codes of a very unusual nature, possessed by both the Lord and his saints. Such white-stone access means will give each and every individual saint in glory transport capacity to experience a privacy never before possible which cannot be invaded nor intruded into. Not only that, but it seems that that identification code associated with "the white stone" of each redeemed saint will not be decipherable by anyone else (except, of course, the Almighty Father) nor will those redeemed saints be able to describe or convey the identification of their white-stone access code to anyone else:
Revelation 2:17 He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, with a new name written on the stone which no one knows except him who receives it.
Revelation 19:12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on His head are many diadems; and He has a name inscribed which no one knows but Himself.
There are good and there are evil secrets, associated with those who create or concoct them:
Deuteronomy 27:15 'Cursed be the man who makes a graven or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, a thing made by the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.' And all the people shall answer and say, 'Amen.'
Deuteronomy 27:24 'Cursed be he who slays his neighbor in secret.' And all the people shall say, 'Amen.'
Judges 3:19 But he himself turned back at the sculptured stones near Gilgal, and said, "I have a secret message for you, Oh king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.
Judges 16:9 Now [Delilah] had men lying in wait in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.
First Samuel 19:2 And Jonathan told David, "Saul my father seeks to kill you; therefore take caution to yourself in the morning, stay in a secret place and hide yourself...
Second Samuel 15:10 But Absalom sent secret messengers throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, "As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, 'Absalom is king at Hebron!'
Second Kings 6:8 Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, "At such and such a place shall be my camp."
9 But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there."
10 And the king of Israel sent to the place of which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice.
11 And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?"
12 And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, Oh king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber."
13 And he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him." It was told him, "Hey, he is in Dothan."
14 So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army; and they came by night, and surrounded the city.
15 When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, hey, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And the servant said, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?"
16 He said, "Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them."
17 Then Elisha prayed, and said, "Oh LORD, I pray you, open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and hey, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
18 And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Strike this people, I pray you, with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha.
19 And Elisha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." And he led them to Samaria.
20 As soon as they entered Samaria, Elisha said, "Oh LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and wow, they were in the midst of Samaria.
21 When the king of Israel saw them he said to Elisha, "My father, shall I slay them? Shall I slay them?"
22 He answered, "You shall not slay them. Would you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master."
23 So he prepared for them a great feast; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians came no more on raids into the land of Israel.
Second Kings 11:2 But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were about to be slain, and she put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Thus she hid him from Athaliah, so that he was not slain...
Second Chronicles 22:11 But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were about to be slain, and she put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. Thus Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and wife of Jehoiada the priest, because she was a sister of Ahaziah, hid him from Athaliah, so that she did not slay him...
Job 13:10 He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
Psalm 51:6 Hey, you desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
64:2 hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the scheming of evildoers
81:7 In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah.
90:8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance.
139:15 my frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.
Proverbs 9:17 "Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
Proverbs 21:14 A gift in secret averts anger; and a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.
Proverbs 25:9 Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not disclose another's secret
Ecclesiastes 10:20 Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.
Ecclesiastes 12:14 For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.
Isaiah 3:17 the Lord will smite with a scab the heads of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will lay bare their secret parts.
45:3 I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hoards in secret places, that you may know that it is I, the LORD, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.
45:19 I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, 'Seek me in chaos.' I the LORD speak the truth, I declare what is right.
48:16 Draw near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret, from the time it came to be I have been there." And now the Lord GOD has sent me and his Spirit.
Isaiah 65:1 I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, "Here am I, here am I," to a nation that did not call on my name.
2 I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;
3 a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon bricks;
4 who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 who say, "Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am set apart from you." These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.
6 Hey, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom
7 their iniquities and their fathers' iniquities together," says the LORD, "because they burned incense upon the mountains and reviled me upon the hills, I will measure into their bosom payment for their former doings."
8 Thus says the LORD: "As the wine is found in the cluster, and they say, 'Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,' so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all.
9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah inheritors of my mountains; my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall reside there.
11 But you who reject the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny;
12 I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter; because, when I called, you did not answer, when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes, and chose what I did not delight in."
13 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Hey, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; hey, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; hey, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;
14 hey, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart, but you shall cry out for pain of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit."
Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock has been taken captive.
Jeremiah 23:24 "Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him?" says the LORD. "Do I not fill heaven and earth?" says the LORD.
Ezekiel 28:1 The word of the LORD came to me:
2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,' yet you are but a man, and no god, though you consider yourself as wise as a god --
3 you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;
4 by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
5 by your great wisdom in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth --
6 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you consider yourself as wise as a god,
7 therefore, hey, I will bring strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
8 They shall thrust you down into the Pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.
9 Will you still say, 'I am a god,' in the presence of those who slay you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who wound you?
10 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken," says the Lord GOD.
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, without revealing his secret to His servants the prophets.
As Albert Einstein is said to have said: "God does not play dice with the Universe." Nothing happens without a cause, and the unusual and miracles are predicted by God and such prediction is conveyed to those men He wants such conveyed to.
Habakkuk 3:14 You did pierce with your shafts the head of his warriors, who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret.
Matthew 6:4 so that your alms may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 6:18 that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
Matthew 10:27 What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops.
Mark 4:11 And He said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables;
Mark 4:22 For there is nothing hid, except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret, except to come to light.
Luke 8:17 For nothing is hid that shall not be made manifest, nor anything secret that shall not be known and come to light.
John 7:4 "For no man works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world."
Romans 16:25 Now to Him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret for long ages
26 but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith --
27 to the only wise God be glory for evermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
First Corinthians 2:7 But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glorification.
So, we cannot keep any secret secret away from God Himself? And the LORD has secrets which He not only does not tell us, but also never will tell us nor anyone else?
Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.
First Kings 8:39 then you hear in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of men)
Second Chronicles 6:30 then you hear from heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to each whose heart thou know, according to all his ways (for you, you only, know the hearts of the children of men)
Job knows that God the Creator is just and fair, that God (and not Satan) is ultimately in control of Job's temporary afflication, that Job is not that guilty of being punished what whatever he did not actually commit, that the Almighty has given him life and continual love and preserved his spirit, that if Job had sinned God would certainly requite Job accordingly, and formed Job when a human fetus in the womb, yet Job wonders why God did not abort him as a miscarriage before birth:
Job 7:16 I loathe my life; I would not live for ever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.
Job 10:1 "I loathe my life; I will give free utterance to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
2 I will say to God, Do not condemn me; let me know why you do contend against me.
3 Does it seem good to you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands and favor the designs of the wicked?
4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years as man's years,
6 that you do seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
7 although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
8 Your hands fashioned and made me; and now you do turn about and destroy me. (?)
9 Remember that you have made me of clay; and will you turn me to dust again?
11 You did clothe me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.
12 You have granted me life and continual love; and your care has preserved my spirit.
13 Yet these things you did hide in your heart; I know that this was your purpose.
14 If I sin, you do mark me, and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 If I am wicked, woe to me! If I am righteous, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look upon my affliction.
16 And if I lift myself up, you do hunt me like a lion, and again work wonders against me;
17 you do renew your witnesses against me, and increase your vexation toward me; you do bring fresh hosts against me.
18 Why did you bring me forth from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me,
19 and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.
Satan, like God, can hear what is godly and godless speech is when vocally uttered by a human, and also can see what is godly and godless actions when done by a human, and detect whereabouts of whoever whenever the Lord allows Satan to discover the hidden location of whoever:
Deuteronomy 26:17 You have declared this day regarding the LORD that He is your God, and that you will walk in His ways, and keep His statutes and His commandments and His ordinances, and will obey His voice
Deuteronomy 30:8 And you shall again obey the voice of the LORD, and keep all His commandments which I command you this day.
Joshua 24:24 And the people said to Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey."
Nehemiah 9:16 But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments;
Nehemiah 9:17 they refused to obey, and were not mindful of the wonders which you did perform among them; but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in continual love, and did not reject them.
Nehemiah 9:29 And you did warn them in order to turn them back to your law. Yet they acted presumptuously and did not obey your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances, by the observance of which a man shall live, and turned a stubborn shoulder and stiffened their neck and would not obey.
Job 34:22 There is no gloom or deep darkness where evildoers may hide themselves.
Psalm 106:25 They murmured in their tents, and did not obey the voice of the LORD.
Jeremiah 7:24 But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.
Jeremiah 7:28 And you shall say to them, 'This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, and did not accept discipline; truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
Jeremiah 11:8 Yet they did not obey or incline their ear, but every one walked in the stubbornness of his evil heart. Therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did not."
Jeremiah 42:6 Whether it is good or evil, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, that it may be well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God."
Daniel 9:11 All Israel has transgressed thy law and turned aside, refusing to obey thy voice. And the curse and oath which are written in the law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him.
Amos 9:3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men.
Acts 7:39 Our fathers refused to obey him, but thrust him aside, and in their hearts they turned to Egypt
Second Thessalonians 3:14 If any one refuses to obey what we say in this letter, note that man, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed.
Psalm 40:9 I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; wow, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, LORD.
Psalm 69:5 Oh God, you know my folly; the wrongs I have done are not hidden from you.
Psalm 69:19 You know my reproach, and my shame and my dishonor; my foes are all known to you.
However, only God the Creator (not Satan) is omniscient:
Psalm 139:2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Psalm 139:4 Even before a word is on my tongue, wow, Oh LORD, you know it altogether.
Psalm 148:1 Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD from the heavens, praise Him in the heights!
2 Praise Him, all His angels, praise Him, all His host!
3 Praise Him, sun and moon, praise Him, all you shining stars!
4 Praise Him, you highest heavens, and you waters above the heavens!
5 Let them praise the name of the LORD! For He commanded and they were created.
6 And He established them forever; He fixed their bounds which cannot be passed.
7 Praise the LORD from the earth, you sea monsters and all deeps,
8 fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling His command!
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with sighs too deep for words.
Hebrews 4:12 For the Word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Hebrews 4:13 And before Him no creature is hidden, but all are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.
So, the first two questions initially stated above:
Have you ever wondered if there was a place you could go where the cops and the media could neither go nor investigate if they got there?
Have you ever wondered if the Devil can "read your mind" and know what you are inwardly thinking, especially if you don't form the words with your mouth as to what you are inwardly thinking?
...have essentially been answered.
As to the third and last question:
Have you ever wondered if God knows what you are going to decide before you decide it?
...we delve into Scripture to discover the answer.
To begin with, we must determined if humans have a free will to comply with and accommodate to what their Creator wants them to comply with and accommodate to.
The answer is that humans are not pre-programmed robots, nor even lower lifeforms operating on mere pre-programmed instinct responding to sundry environmental stimuli in admittedly complex and varied yet ultimately perfectly predictable ways.
If God had not endowed both the evil majority on the broad and easy road to destruction, and the righteous minority on the hard and narrow road to life, He could not - in all justice - acquit to eternal heavenly bliss those who He forced to involuntarily be good, nor condemn to eternal hellish torment those who He forced to involuntarily be bad . . . which is not to say that He could not do it anyway if He (with His own free will) wanted to.
So, are we irreparably predestined without any choice in the matter?
Jeremiah 1:5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations."
Even the Lord, who formed the conception of free-willed parents choosing each other with their free wills to mate with and then making a free-will choice to copulate in the process of child production, and then consecrated that pre-born free-willed human child and appointed that free-willed pre-born child to be a prophet to the nations, could not (under the circumstances of the parameters of His construction of free-willed human beings) foresee nor predict for certainty if that pre-born child would acknowledge God's given pre-born consecration or agree to it, and could not foresee if that pre-born free-willed child would choose to comply with and accommodate to the Creator's pre-born appointment mentioned.
Even though:
James 1:17 Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
...including human creativity to make up names for what humans sense, that Father has obligated Himself of His own free will to see what humans will choose to say and do with their own God-given free wills:
Genesis 2:19 So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
Judges 3:4 They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the LORD, which He commanded their fathers by Moses.
Predestination of intention is revealed by the phrase: "before the foundation of the world:"
Matthew 13:35 This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet: "I will open my mouth in parables, I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world."
Matthew 25:34 Then the King will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, Oh blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
Luke 11:50 that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation
John 17:24 Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see and consider my glory which you have given me in your love for me before the foundation of the world.
Ephesians 1:4 even as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him.
Hebrews 4:3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as He has said, "As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall never enter my rest,'" although His works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Hebrews 9:26 for then He would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, He has appeared once for all at the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.
First Peter 1:20 He was destined before the foundation of the world but was made manifest at the end of the times for your sake.
Revelation 13:8 and all who reside on earth will worship it, every one whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that was slain.
Revelation 17:8 The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is to ascend from the abyss and go to perdition; and the residents on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will marvel to see and consider the beast, because he was and is not and is to come.
Notice that the following verse does not contain a since you but instead an if you:
Exodus 19:5 Now therefore, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my own possession among all peoples; for all the earth is mine
Deuteronomy 11:13 "And if you will obey my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul
13:18 if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, keeping all His commandments which I command you this day, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD your God.
28:1 "And if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you this day, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.
28:2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, if you obey the voice of the LORD your God.
28:13 And the LORD will make you the head, and not the tail; and you shall tend upward only, and not downward;
if you obey the commandments of the LORD your God, which I command you this day, being careful to do them
28:15 "But if you will not obey the voice of the LORD your God or be careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you this day, then all these curses shall come upon you and overtake you.
30:10 if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law, if you turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
30:16 If you obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day, by loving the LORD your God, by walking in His ways, and by keeping His commandments and His statutes and His ordinances, then you shall live and multiply, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.
First Kings 6:12 "Regarding this house which you are building, if you will walk in my statutes and obey my ordinances and keep all my commandments and walk in them, then I will establish my word with you, which I spoke to David your father.
Jeremiah 22:4 For if you will indeed obey this word, then there shall enter the gates of this house kings who sit on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their servants, and their people.
Is God pro-choice? Impeccably:
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live
Joshua 24:15 And if you be unwilling to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you reside; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Job 34:33 Will He then make requital to suit you, because you reject it? For you must choose, and not I; therefore declare what you know.
Yet, it seems that God already knew what some would do before they did what they did:
Deuteronomy 4:30 When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the LORD your God and obey His voice...
Zechariah 13:9 And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, 'They are my people'; and they will say, 'The LORD is my God.'"
With all the flipflopping of obeying God then not obeying God then obeying God then not obeying God then obeying God then not obeying God . . . it suggests one to wonder who is actually a genuine Christian and who is not actually a genuine Christian.
Again, the Bible gives the answer:
Matthew 7:16 You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Matthew 7:20 Thus you will know them by their fruits.
Matthew 10:22 and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Matthew 24:13 But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Mark 13:13 and you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved.
Luke 6:46 "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you?
John 8:31 Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples..."
John 14:15 If you love me, you will keep my commandments.
First Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate (homogay), nor sodomites (same-gender licensed or non-licensed homosodomites unionizing in the guise of "same-sex" "marriage")
First Corinthians 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor robbers will inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness,
20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit,
21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.
24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
26 Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another.
Hebrews 12:14 Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
First John 2:22 Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
3:10 By this it may be seen who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother.
3:24 All who keep His commandments reside in him, and He in them. And by this we know that he resides in us, by the Spirit which He has given us.
4:3 and every spirit which does not confess Jesus is not of God. This is the spirit of antichrist, of which you heard that it was coming, and now it is in the world already.
4:6 We are of God. Whoever knows God listens to us, and he who is not of God does not listen to us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
4:8 He who does not love does not know God; for God is love.
4:13 By this we know that we reside in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His own Spirit.
4:20 If any one says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and obey His commandments.
Second John 1:7 For many deceivers have gone out into the world, men who will not acknowledge the coming of Jesus Christ in the flesh; such a one is a deceiver and antichrist.
Revelation 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.
Revelation 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead in them, and all were judged by what they had done.
Is there a sin which cannot be absolved nor forgiven?
Isaiah 22:14 The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: "Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you till you die," says the Lord GOD of hosts.
Matthew 12:31 Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
Matthew 12:32 And whoever says a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.
Luke 12:10 And every one who speaks a word against the Son of man will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.