Part 2:

Now you could write it off and say that it was God's will for Moses to make an appeal for the people, but the Bible clearly says that God repented. He changed his mind. His will was to destroy the people and make a great nation of Moses, but he changed to acknowledge the will of Moses. It's a great example of the importance of praying, making requests, and appealing to God for others.

It is a good example of praying and appealing to God for others, I agree. I mean, you seem to disagree with 'writing it off' by saying that it was God's will for Moses to make the appeal, but it really does remind me of the verse in Lamentations:

Lam 3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

Not only that, but we know that God promised Abraham that his seed would inherit Israel - his seed being Christ. And in that, God's will was to make a great nation from Abraham's line. God could have made a great nation out of Moses alone or the people He brought out of Egypt. God was capable of either, of course. But with Moses's plea, He chose to show mercy on Israel. His will would have been fulfilled either way, though, with or without those people. Like Jesus said, God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham (Matt 3:9). If Moses's will was completely against God's will, it wouldn't have happened. Moses also appealed to God on another occasion, but God didn't change his mind then because Moses's will truly did conflict with God's will on that occasion:

Exodus 32:31-33 And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

My next point being that while Jesus told us in John 6 that no man can come to him unless the Father draws in, Jesus said in John 12:32 that his crucifixion has drawn all men unto him. 1 Timothy 4:10 tells us that Christ is the savior of all men, especially those that believe. All are called unto the grace of Christ but those that believe are only those who will or want to believe. If God chose from the beginning whether someone would be saved, Christ couldn't be the savior of all men. Only the savior of those that were called.'

Jesus is the savior of all men. That is to say, He is the only way to salvation for all men, and He offered it to all. There is no other way, we both know this. And I agree, that He did come to offer salvation to all men. However, I don't see this conflicting with the idea that only those who are the called will believe on Him. The reason being that, if Jesus had not come to offer salvation to all men, then the one's who don't believe on Him wouldn't have been made manifest to have been condemned already. And this "condemned already" is important. Notice that it says specifically, God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but those who believed not were condemned already, and those who do believe are not condemned. Why were we not condemned? And why were those who believe not condemned already? Who or what condemned them? Were they condemned before Christ came into the world? Is it not possible that we were not condemned because, as it says throughout the new testament, we were chosen in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love (Eph 1:4-5)?

John 3:16-21 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

And also important to note, it says, those who doeth truth cometh to the light (they believe on Christ), that their deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Wrought (as in carefully formed or worked into shape) in God. That is to say, those who doeth truth (truth that God put in them to do) come to the light.

If mankind has no free will, then shouldn't God have said "whosoever I have called" rather than "whosoever will"? Somebody there is willing to come to the water of life.'

Yes, God said whosoever will, come and take the water of life. But we know, and Christ testified, that not everyone will. We will come to the water of life if God called us and created us to do so. This verse doesn't conflict with God's election.

2 Tim 1:8-9 Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began

We know that God is not willing that any should perish (2 Peter 3:9) so God is already pulling for everyone to be saved. If there are then only few that are saved, there must be another factor.'

But you see, this interpretation of 2 Peter 3:9 conflicts with other parts of scripture.

2 Pet 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Saying that the "us" in this verse applies to all men conflicts with scripture. Because we know, that if it was God's will that NO MAN perish, Christ would have been wrong when He testified that many WILL PERISH. And we know also from Revelation that all those who worship the beast will perish:

Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

Rev 20:15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

If it was God's will that no man perish, no one would perish. As it is said, for who hath resisted His will? (Romans 9:19) So the "us" in this verse applies to all those who are called... Because if it is, as it says, according to the good pleasure of God's will that we were predestined to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself (Eph 1:5), then of course God is not willing that any of us who are called should perish, but that all of us who are called should come to repentance.

But God does designate some people as reprobate. People that will not be saved. Those that reject God and in turn are rejected by God. Though I believe it is still not God's will for these people to perish, it is just for them to perish. That is why God gives them over to strong delusion so that they might all be damned that love not the truth. Again with this group, God foreknows who is stiffnecked and will never come to the truth. This group and those God foreknows will repent and believe both act out his will according to his pleasure, but who fills the rolls is determined by whether we will to believe on Christ.

If you believe some are predestined to perish, how don't you believe the opposite? I can't wrap my head around it. I see it as either both or neither, you know?