Calvinist: Well Lord here I am in heaven with you. Thank you for predestinating me to be saved before the foundation of the world. But Lord where are my parents that faithfully served you as missionaries in Africa for over 40 years? God: They were not chosen. Calvinist: But Lord, where are my brothers and sister that were faithful Sunday school teachers for over 20 years? God: They were not chosen. But Lord, What about my wife and children? I taught them to be faithful to you and they are not here. God: Sit down and shut up, you are asking to many questions. I will chose who I will and damn who I will. Am I not the God of Calvinism. Now, shut up or I will unchose you.
That is quite an absurd hypothetical scenario! Missionaries, Sunday school teachers, family members of Christians ... not chosen? Doubt it. Those who seek God through Christ find Him.
Simply those who believe in Christ have been chosen. No one can come tonthe Father unless He draws Him.
Eph.2:8-9
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For by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from you; it is the gift of God; 9it is not from works, so no one may boast.
So you don't manufacture this gift for yourself. Jesus is the AUTHOR of our faith - you aren't.
God enables us to come. We are blind and can do nothing to spiritually remove that blindness. He lifts the veil so we can see, then being drawn to His word, we are eventually persuaded and then say YES.
But pride makes us believe that we did it all by ourselves, our own will power. No. The Flood proved that mankind _ apart from the eight chosen _ was incapable of chosing God, getting on that boat. Of course when the flood came, they cried and pleaded, realizing their fate.
Man, by nature, results God, revels against His authority and wants to in his own throne, director of his reality.
BTW, I am not a Calvinist, nevertheless, predestination/ election is scriptural - did you miss it?
1 Peter 1:1-2
Eph. 1:4-5
Eph. 1:11
2 Tim. 1:9
Gal. 1:15
Col. 3:12
Jer. 1:5
John 6:44
John 15:16
Matt. 22:14
Rom. 8:28-30
REV. 13:8