Featured Election,“For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God”

You attribute all scripture that Glorifies God to John Calvin, then dismiss it, as, "a man's".

There has to be an Eternal reason for that.

 

1 Corinthians 2:14
King James Version

14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him:

neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

 

You worship John Calvin, as THE AUTHOR of THE BIBLE.

 

We're dealing with what God has Revealed to Mankind,
in the stated Scriptures.

(Not what carnal-minded "man" reasons out, using a mind
that was, and is, affected by The Fall of Adam
and is dead to "the Things of God" that are Spiritually Decerned.)

1 Corinthians 2:14
King James Version

14 "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God:
for they are foolishness unto him:

neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."

 

Did Calvin, or God, say that God SAVES souls
by The Power, that Raised up Christ from the Dead?

A lost sinner remains dead in sins and trespasses,
until being Quickened & Renewed by the Holy Spirit,
and is thereby Spiritually Enabled to Answer the Effectual Call of God,
by and through the Instrumentation of The WORD of GOD
and to Embrace the Grace Offered and Conveyed in it;

by The Power, that Raised up Christ from the Dead.

i Eph. 1.19,20.

19 "And what is the Exceeding Greatness of His Power
to us-ward who believe, according to the Working of His Mighty Power,

20 Which He Wrought in Christ, when He Raised Him from the Dead,
and set Him at His Own Right Hand in the Heavenly Places,"

 

All who eventually become the, "whosoever will",
were Elected before The Foundation of The World.

Those whom God hath predestinated unto Life,
He is Pleased to SAVE in His Appointed, and Accepted Time,

a Romans 8:30 ►
"Moreover whom He did Predestinate, them He also Called:
and whom He Called, them He also Justified:

and whom He Justified, them He also Glorified."

Rom. 11.7. Eph. 1.10,11. 2 Thes. 2.13,14.

GOD Effectually Calls by His word and Spirit,
out of that state of sin, and death,
in which they are by Nature, to Grace and Salvation

b Eph. 2.1-6. by Jesus Christ;

And you hath he quickened,
who were dead in trespasses and sins;

2 Wherein in time past
ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air,
the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past
in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
and of the mind;
and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

4 But God, who is rich in mercy,
for his great love wherewith, he loved us,

5 Even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ,
(by grace ye are saved

6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:"

Don't ask or expect lost souls to "believe" The WORD of GOD.

If they have never been Granted CONVICTION of their sins and SPIRITUAL REPENTANCE and FAITH, they have no SPIRIT of GOD to Understand Spiritual things, like that:

GOD Effectually Calls by His word and Spirit,
out of that state of sin, and death,
in which they are by Nature, to Grace and Salvation

b Eph. 2.1-6. by Jesus Christ;

5 Even when we were dead in sins,
hath quickened us together with Christ,
(by grace ye are saved

6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:"

 

The New Hampshire Confession of Faith 1833

VII. Grace in Regeneration

We believe that in order to be saved,
sinners must be regenerated,
or born again;

that regeneration consists
in giving a holy disposition to the mind;

that it is effected in a manner
above our comprehension
by the power of the Holy Spirit,
in connection with divine truth,

so as to secure our
voluntary obedience to the gospel;

and that its proper evidence appears
in the holy fruits of repentance and faith
and newness of life

John 3:3, John 3:6-7, I Cor.3:14, Rev.14:3, Rev. 21:27,
II Cor. 5;17, Ezek. 36:26, Deu. 30-6, Rom. 2:28-29,
Rom.5:5, I John 4:7, John 3:8, John 1:13, James 1:16-18,
I Cor. 1:30, Phil. 2:13, I Peter 1:22-25, I John 5:1,
Eph. 4:20-24, Col. 3:9-11, Eph. 5:9, Rom. 8:90, Gal. 5:16-23,
Eph. 3:14-21, Matt. 3:8-10, Matt.7:20, I John 5:4, 18

 

What did the jailer know
about Jesus' Death, Burial, and Resurrection,
having been witness to and associated
with Paul and Silas' testimonies, to be imprisoned,
prior to this and what caused this?:

29 "Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,

Did the jailer know what happened to Lydia, in Acts 16?
that GOD OPENED HER HEART?

The Bible Teaches, in Acts 16:32,
that 32 "... they spake unto him the word of the Lord,
and to all that were in his house."

The Word of God and the Peaching of The Law
and The Gospel were Used as the Instrumentality
for the jailer to be Saved,
just like every other soul that Spiritually BELIEVES.

"Believe" is not a Process of Salvation, it is a Command.

...

In John 3:21;
"But he that doeth truth cometh to the light,
that his deeds may be made manifest,
that they are wrought in God."

it Teaches (to the Born Again Believer
that has the Spiritual Ability
to Follow the Spirit of God)
that the John 3:16, "whosoever's",
were "WROUGHT IN GOD".

...

The "Roman's Road", is The Road to Hell, without:

Romans 3:19-20;
"Now we know that what things soever the law saith,
it saith to them who are under the law:
that every mouth may be stopped,
and all the world may become guilty before God.

Therefore by the deeds of the law
there shall no flesh be justified in his sight:
for by the law is the knowledge of sin."

Decisionism; i.e., MENTAL / PHYSICAL CONSENT
to "trust", "believe",
"have faith", have "true trust",
"calling upon The Name of The Lord",
"Making Jesus The Lord of your life,
"not wanting to be 'Left Behind',
"believing on The Lord Jesus Christ"
without SPIRITUAL CONVICTION
and SPIRITUAL REPENTANCE
LEAVES LOST SOULS, LOST.

CONSENT of SIN without CONVICTION
and REPENTANCE
LEAVES LOST SOULS, LOST.

Does, "REGENERATION", exist in your plan of Salvation?

I SEE NO REGENERATION in most 'plans of salvation'.

THERE MUST BE SPIRITUAL CONVICTION of SIN,
TO BE FORGIVEN.

The lost sinner must be, "lost",
and have a soul-Wrought NEED
for a SAVIOR before they are SAVED.

 

Your answer is, "Calvin".