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"No man can be a consistent fatalist. For to be consistent he would have to reason something like this: “If I am to die today, it will do me no good to eat, for I shall die anyway. Nor do I need to eat if I am to live many years yet, for I shall live anyway. Therefore I will not eat.” Needless to say, if God has foreordained that a man shall live, He has also foreordained that he shall be kept from the suicidal folly of refusing to eat."

Amen! I love it, Dr. E. Fatalism has no true master, but Divine predestination does. And just as you say, the recoil away from God's loving predestination comes from man's desire to be in control. That was me and so I laugh at myself for pushing away from the very thing that benefited me and could comfort me MOST. I can see a reprobate being theoretically against predestination, but the saved should embrace it. There is no higher level of security. If the saved truly trust God, then they should WANT Calvinistic predestination to be true. :)