I fail to see how Eph 1:4 teaches predestination the way to is preached.
Eph 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
Eph 1:5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
Eph 1:6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
To read without understanding: "One day the Lord fired up His Ipad and filled out a 'wish list' of people to one day give a home to.
To read with understanding: From the very beginning, the Lord has purposed that those who would turn to Him would live and be blessed forever. Not that He purposed who would turn and be saved. And think of it as His purposeful plan for the future, rather that a 'spare of the moment' thing......a plan 'B'.
Consider the following:
Eze 18:25 "Yet you say, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' Hear now, O house of Israel: Is my way not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
Eze 18:26 When a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and does injustice, he shall die for it; for the injustice that he has done he shall die.
Eze 18:27 Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
Eze 18:28 Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Eze 18:29 Yet the house of Israel says, 'The way of the Lord is not just.' O house of Israel, are my ways not just? Is it not your ways that are not just?
Eze 18:30 "Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, lest iniquity be your ruin.
Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why will you die, O house of Israel?
Eze 18:32 For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD; so turn, and live."
There is no injustice in the Lord. There is uncompromising Holiness, there is uncompromising love.
Surely when any turn from sin to seek God's grace they will find forgiveness and acceptance.
The Canaanite woman with a daughter in dire need was not of the house of Israel. yet....
Matt 15:24 He answered, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
Matt 15:25 But she came and knelt before him, saying, "Lord, help me."
Matt 15:26 And he answered, "It is not right to take the children's bread and throw it to the dogs."
Matt 15:27 She said, "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table."
Matt 15:28 Then Jesus answered her, "O woman, great is your faith! Be it done for you as you desire." And her daughter was healed instantly.
Does this speak of predestination....No! it speaks of love and compassion for the ones created in the image of God.
It speaks of God being a reasonable God who considers each person as an individual, not a statistic, not a member of a subset.