For any readers that do not fully understand or are not overly familiar with the original beliefs of Calvinists, here they are as recorded in the Remonstrance which held Calvin's views as a new theology. The following are what the Dutch presenters of 'Remonstrance' considered to be the most extreme points as expounded in Calvin's Catechism and the Belgium Confession.
1. That God (as some asserted) had ordered by an eternal and irreversible decree, some from among men (whom He did not consider as created; much less as fallen) to everlasting life; and some (who were by far the greater part) to everlasting perdition without any regard to their obedience or disobedience, in order to exert both His justice and mercy; having so disposed the means, that those whom He had appointed to salvation should be necessarily and unavoidably saved, and the rest necessarily and unavoidably damned.
2. That God (as others taught) had considered mankind not only as created but as fallen in Adam, and consequently as liable to the curse; from which fall and destruction He had determined to release some, and to save them as instances of His mercy; and to leave others, even children of the Covenant, under the curse as examples of His justice, without any regard to belief or unbelief. To which end God also made use of means whereby the elect were necessarily saved and the reprobate were necessarily damned.
3. That, consequently, Jesus Christ the Saviour of the World did not die for all men, but only for those who were elected according to the first or second manner.
4. That therefore the Spirit of God and Christ wrought in the elect by an irresistible force in order to make them believe and be saved, but that necessary and sufficient grace was not given to the reprobate.
5. That they who had once received a true faith could never lose it wholly or finally.
I find some of the above not only utterly repugnant when compared to the revealed character of God in scripture, but wholly unbiblical and contrary to the character of God as revealed in the life of Christ.