Does the concept of Hard Determinism or Presdestination destroy free will/the omnibenevolence of God?

[TEPO]

I’m not sure if I’m correctly following you, but from the last section of your reply it sounds to me like you are suggesting a theory of universal, resistible predestination to heaven. I forgot about that possibility, though I’ve encountered it before. It seems to me this essentially reduces predestination to God’s universal salvific will and/or universal sufficient grace, just as some other popular explanations of predestination reduce it to God’s foreknowledge or to the particular judgment.

This approach of redefining predestination to mean nothing but some other aspect of Christian belief we can all agree on does not strike me as a plausible answer to the problem.

It’s great that you caught that, I was hoping that you would, but wasn’t sure if my post was quite clear enough -and it was intentional on my part.

I researched the etymological meaning of the word Predestination and it appears to stem from the Latin word :“destino” or “destinare” which can actually mean to either consider, intend, or to aim for…

This is opposed to the common misconception that the word derives from the term Destiny. In Latin, Destiny is Fatum, which means Fate. Now the term Fate is Not typically a word used in Catholicism so much as it is in Greek mythology- in Catholicism, we use the term “Divine Providence”, as opposed to fate. Divine Providence means :"Providence is God Himself considered in that act by which in His wisdom He so orders all events within the universe that the end for which it was created may be realized. That end is that all creatures should manifest the glory of God, and in particular that man should glorify Him, recognizing in nature the work of His hand, serving Him in obedience and love, and thereby attaining to the full development of his nature and to eternal happiness in God."
newadvent.org/cathen/12510a.htm

In other words, I think those who assume that predestination means that certain people are destined to go to heaven by Gods appointed fate, or that some people have their lives arranged based on their destined salvation are actually mistaking the etymological meaning of this Catholic term with the etymological meaning of a Pagan term.

Predestination seems to mean that mankind was created to come into friendship with God in heaven through His grace… All of us.