The choice was that either we were saved before the world began, which means everyone assumes they are saved, regardless of the fact there had to be those who were created before the world began, who were condemned to hell; or we believed we decided our fate, which appeared to make God ignorant of what path we would ultimately choose, even thinking we were going to hell until the last moment when we entered into a death-bed confession surprising everyone, even God. But a third alternative exists.