while it's good of you to point out that context is not to be discounted and in many cases if a verse is taken out of context it can superficially be read in a very wrong way,
you haven't provided any contextual criticism of John 15:16 at all.
maybe i'm missing the forest for the trees, but all i see in this long post is "calvie this calvie that" and no substantive argument against predestination. name calling and straw men.
yes, context is extremely important.
so look at the context of John 15:16 -- does Christ's statement "you have not chosen me, but i have chosen you" have a radically different interpretation when properly seen in its context?
I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
I am the vine, yeare the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.
As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
These things I command you, that ye love one another.
(John 15:1-18)
i don't see that the meaning of Jesus' statement is changed by the context. to me it seems reinforced by the context -- for none of the disciples came to him of their own will, but He said "follow me" and they obeyed, or their brothers said "come" and they came. Jesus is the vine, and no leaf or branch decides on its own 'i will grow on that vine' -- but the husbandmen grafts a branch in, or the vine sprouts a bud, and then there the branches grow.
if you want to argue against this doctrine, you should use the scripture itself, not 'calvie blah blah no context' and then not provide any context of your own. otherwise, all you've done is slander a theological camp. your argument is little more than a bumper sticker.
now if you were to look at the entirety of Leviticus chapter 26, you will see immediately a radically different picture than you do isolating verse 26.