Like a loving Father, God trusts me, gives me freedom, allows me choices, gives me the chance to work things out for myself. I try to raise my own children the same way - teach them, offer them guidance, then trust them to make proper decisions. Any thoughtful reading would note that God allows humanity incredible freedom, from the Garden of Eden, through the lives of the patriarchs and the prophets, on to the time of Jesus and the early church. God must really care. Now, about that Presbyterian doctrine of predestination.
Predestination has to do with salvation.
It was the term chosen by John Calvin and other reformers to explain that our salvation is not simply the result of our choice - God acts first in extending the invitation and providing us an opportunity to respond. This suggests that predestination can best be understood not at the beginning but at the conclusion of the life of faith. It is the testimony of the believer that what has happened in the life of faith has not been the result of one's own efforts about which one can boast but of the grace of God. Back to the movie. Do you remember that screaming scene I described with Lt.