No, I do not think it so. Not from God's eternal perspective. God knows His own even before their births.
The tare parable has the good seed sown by the Son of Man, they are saved as the Son of Man sows them, they have their origin in the power of God.
The good seed can though do works of the flesh and does not even know Christ, recall they have to grow, but God arrests them and takes them for Himself at some point in their life as they really do belong to Him. They are just sheep going astray. He brings them back to Himself
Like Paul, who breathing out threats against the church, arresting and delivering them to death; But God makes all that immediately stop when Christ appears to Him.
Acts 22:9
“And those who were with me indeed saw the light and were afraid, but they did not hear the voice of Him who spoke to me.
No one around Saul heard the voice of Christ except for him. Paul acknowledges his own hidden calling from God was from the womb, even from before all things.
Galatians 1
11 But I make known to you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached by me is not according to man. 12 For I neither received it from man, nor was I taught it, but it came through the revelation of Jesus Christ.
13 For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it. 14 And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, 16 to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, 17 nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.
2 Timothy 1
8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, 9 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began (before our mother's womb, from the beginning God called us for Himself), 10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher [c]of the Gentiles.
2 Peter
21 For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for [e]us, leaving [f]us an example, that you should follow His steps:
22 “Who committed no sin,
Nor was deceit found in His mouth”;
23 who, when He was reviled, did not revile in return; when He suffered, He did not threaten, but committed Himself to Him who judges righteously; 24 who Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose [g]stripes you were healed. 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but have now returned to the Shepherd and [h]Overseer of your souls.
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