No. Calvinist theology teaches that God has chosen some for salvation and passed over others (or in some versions, including Calvin’s, predestined them to hell, though people argue over whether Calvin taught a true double-predestination view) without regard to their *foreseen *actions. In other words, in the logical order God’s predestination comes first, and human actions follow. This does not mean that human actions do not make a difference, but that they are themselves the consequences of God’s choice. With regard to election to eternal life, Augustine and Aquinas taught the same thing, though the Catholic tradition avoids speaking similarly of election to damnation, logical as that consequence seems.
Yes, but you don’t seem to understand what irresistible grace means. Irresistible grace means that God effectually moves the elect to repent, believe, and persevere.
Of course not. Again, you obviously don’t understand what you are talking about.
This is a complex subject, which is why Catholics and Lutherans (more wisely than Calvinists) relegate it to philosophical disputation rather than giving it a prominent place in the preaching of the Gospel. Given the way Calvinists brought this doctrine to the fore, they have only themselves to blame, I suppose, that people proceed to misunderstand their teachings so radically. But misunderstanding is still wrong, even if Calvinists brought it on themselves.
Edwin
What up with John anyways to speak that way?
