Man must cooperate with God to be saved. God makes no distinction between persons. Thus, all the saved are elect, not as indivduals, but as a class. Predestination means that God simply has foreknown who will turn out to be believers and He has predestined them to be conformed to the image of Christ. This doctrinal system takes God off the throne and puts the free will of man on the throne.
Man is in the center of things.
He would gladly steal God's sovereignty from Him. However, when it comes to matters of life and death, heaven and hell it does not matter whether what we believe is agreeble to the human heart. The Bible clearly indicates that God chooses man not on the basis of merit, but out of His sovereign choice. He chose Abraham, a pagan worshipper of the moon. God chose Israel, not because it was the greatest political, millitary, scientific power of the age.