Nice try at a diversionary calvinogma tactic....you will have to grow up, eat your wheaties and get up before the chickens to catch me in some rigmarole verbiage trap........
My bible says God only chastens SONS WHOM HE RECEIVES....yet LOVED THE WHOLE KOSMOS and PAID FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD
Nice try pal...no ceeeegarr!
I have told you before that I have never read Calvin's writings, and what I have been told about him, I do not agree with his interpretation of scriptures because there are some, that I have heard of, that do not harmonize with all scriptures.
Scripture proves scripture, and should be our only source of gleaning the truth of Christ's doctrine, with the revelation of the Holy Spirit.
God has given mankind freedom to choose out his changes as he sojourns here on earth, but mankind's eternal destination is made by God's grace, without the help of mankind.
God does not predetermine mankind's actions, however, he knows beforehand, what man will choose.
Mankind, by the freedom that God gave him to choose, chose not to seek God. By God's foreknowledge of what mankind would choose, is the reason that he chose an elect people before the foundation of the world.
Those same elect people are born into this world, by natural birth, without any spiritual knowledge until God quickens them to a new spiritual life, with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.