How do God’s Sovereignty, Predestination, and Free Will relate to one another?

God predestined us for salvation based on His foreknowledge of whether we would choose to accept or reject Him using our own God-given free will.

If God predestined some people to Heaven and others to Hell, regardless of their actions, would He not be showing favoritism? Given that God cannot do certain things (e.g., lie, deny Himself, steal, etc.), would He not be going against His nature by showing favoritism, as Romans 2:11 indicates?

Even though I think https://www.gotquestions.org has tons of valuable information, I respectfully disagree with them regarding this statement:

He is not being unfair to those who are not chosen, because they are receiving what they deserve. God’s choosing to be gracious to some is not unfair to the others. No one deserves anything from God; therefore, no one can object if he does not receive anything from God. An illustration would be a man randomly handing out money to five people in a crowd of twenty. Would the fifteen people who did not receive money be upset? Probably so. Do they have a right to be upset? No, they do not. Why? Because the man did not owe anyone money. He simply decided to be gracious to some. (“What Is Predestination?”)

If God is just and fair, this doesn’t make sense at all. This would apply to all of His creation, and it seems that people would essentially “luck out” and suffer eternal torment. It would be like Him saying, “I’m God, you are not. Turn, and you will still burn.” It seems that God would be a malicious, psychopathic monster, right?

God chose us before the foundation of the world, knowing that we would accept His invitation through our God-given free will (also known as conditional election). If we didn’t have free will, even to the slightest degree (or at least to some extent), God would be the author of evil. We would be robots, and God would be the master of those robots.

Every time we do something evil, we could justifiably blame God if we are orchestrated puppets on a string. 

If Adam and Eve didn’t have free will when they disobeyed God, God would essentially be responsible for bringing evil into the world. 

Therefore, it seems that God had the Bible written—to some extent—around what we would do based on our own free will, as He can obviously see perfectly into the future. Similarly, since God knows what we will choose, it could not have happened differently from His perspective, but it could have happened differently from ours. He knows what we will do before we freely do it, but that does not necessarily mean He causes it.

At the same time, God is certainly sovereign and can influence our thoughts, actions, and so forth to accomplish His will.

It’s not this simple, and all of these concepts are intertwined in ways that go far beyond human comprehension. I’m thinking that God’s sovereignty, predestination, and free will are like the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in that we cannot fully comprehend them, but maybe I’m wrong. These concepts may be impossible for us to comprehend fully, much like trying to count to infinity.

This is my stance on these topics, which could be wrong. It’s important to emphasize that people can have different views on these issues without jeopardizing their salvation. We all think differently, but the truth is what matters.

All actions you have made, and will make, relates to what is mentioned above, with eternity in mind.