We're all invited to a heavenly feast, but we must RSVP!

Do we have free will, meaning the Will to decide to believe or not to believe God or Jesus as our savior?

My understanding is that God is God and he is love. He wants to save us that's why he came to our wicked world to save his children. And it is Only through Grace that we are saved, but in my understanding, is that Since He is Love, he won't FORCED us to believe Him. We have our FREEDOm (WILL) to choose to believe him or not.

To me, this is the beauty of the relationship. It's a two-way street, where love is to each other. Love is not forced. That's why we state our minds and our hearts to receive Jesus as savior. But, I understand also, even when we pray, when we decide, God through Holy Spirit, ENCOURAGE us to do that. (I read this from CS Lewis Mere Christianity)

The next question is: is that FAIR of God to do that, what about people who never heard of God in the middle of pacific ocean somewhere? My answer is, I don't know, we are not in the position where we can judge other people, God is God and he is perfect, he is just, and his judgement is true.

So, when we DECIDED that we received Jesus as savior, we proclaimed our own connection, reconcilliation with God, to God and to other people. What about predestination? Are we predestined that we are CHOSEN amongst the nations and the people? My first reaction is that: this issue has created such a misunderstaning of Christian values, that claimed that Christians are arrogant! Here is my explaination of predestination, or the way I am trying to picture it:

Since I (used to be) an architect, I will use an architect's office analogy. An organized architect will have in his/her room: a drawing table, a computer, books, an easy chair, and his/her works neatly arranged and organized the way they wanted to be. When s/he has a three year old come into her/his room, he would know, where or what is the three year old target would be. The three year old will target the most interesting (and valuable) drawings on top of the drawing table. WHY? Because he/she (the architect) has a more "superior" intelligence compare to this three year old.

God, (1) the superior intelligent beyond our capacity as human being, would know what will we choose, are we going to believe, or not. God is also (2) the creator, that knows by heart each of us, our thoughts, our way of thinking, our decision making, and the way we grow. God, (3) also stands in the eternity, beyond time, that he is here right now and yesterday and the future. We experience time that passed by us, but God, see them alltogether (that's why NOW is the closest time to eternity which I think is very cool! that we can be as that close to God).

I don't know what will I do without God: he picked me up from dirt and blessed me with his love everyday.