What the Calvinites cannot fathom is that God provided a certain degree of sovereignty to his creation as well.
You know.....like Adam. Who was gifted with the responsibility to oversee, manage and keep what God created.
Satan too. He definitely holds a certain degree of authority and sovereignty.
Cuz you know......God is big enough to allow for that.
There is no degree to Sovereignty. As in,a certain degree of.
Satan has no degree of Sovereignty. He can only do what God permits because God alone has Dominion and is Sovereign.
The Calvanist bigotry blinds people to the truth.
Jesus said,no one can come to him unless....
And in context to that condition , God calls whom he will, his call is his choosing us. Just as Jesus told his Disciples they did not choose him,he chose them.
When Jesus said the natural (sinful,worldly) consciousness/mind cannot understand the things of God,as in the Gospel,because it is spiritually discerned that means we cannot choose Jesus because to our worldly mind the Gospel,the things of God,are thought to be foolishness to us.
When God tells us he wrote the names of those he redeemed through his grace before the creation, foundation,of the world,and the lamb that would take the sins of the world upon itself was also slain before the world was founded,created, predestination is Scripture.
When God tells us we do not save ourselves,we are saved by grace of God ,not of ourselves so we cannot boast, we cannot then insist we do choose Salvation and therein boast. Nor can we say we believe the scriptures when in insisting we choose to be saved we contradict them.
Calvinism is Reformed Theology that predates John Calvin. His TULIP is a culmination of everything Jesus taught as to why ,what,and how we are and need Saving.
Jesus predated John Calvin. Those who taught the same thing prior to Calvin garnered their teachings from Jesus teachings in scripture.