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There is a effectual call issued when God draws the elect vessel of mercy to faith in and obedience to Christ Jn 6:44;12:32, this call is accompanied with inward power of the Spirit of God, and it brings the called one ones or drawn ones out of darkness into His marvelous light 1 Pet 2:9

9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

See that's an effectual calling to those who belong to a chosen generation,

The word chosen is the same greek word for chosen here Matt 22 14

For many are called, but few are chosen.
Notice the effectual transition from or out of darkness into the marvelous light, that's power
Similar to Col 1 13
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
D Fortner writes of this call

This call of the Holy Spirit is always effectual and irresistible. By almighty, irresistible power the Spirit of God draws all of the elect to Christ. This call is given only to God’s elect, it always produces faith in Christ and it always results in salvation (Ps. 65:4; Rom. 8:28-30; 1 Cor. 1:21-24; 2 Tim. 1:9)
 
For many are called, but few are chosen.
Notice the effectual transition from or out of darkness into the marvelous light, that's power
Similar to Col 1 13
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
D Fortner writes of this call
Doesn't sound too effectual if only a few were chosen of the many called.
 
There is a effectual call issued when God draws the elect vessel of mercy to faith in and obedience to Christ Jn 6:44;12:32, this call is accompanied with inward power of the Spirit of God, and it brings the called one ones or drawn ones out of darkness into His marvelous light 1 Pet 2:9

9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;

See that's an effectual calling to those who belong to a chosen generation,

The word chosen is the same greek word for chosen here Matt 22 14

For many are called, but few are chosen.
Notice the effectual transition from or out of darkness into the marvelous light, that's power
Similar to Col 1 13
13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:
D Fortner writes of this call


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Doesn't sound too effectual if only a few were chosen of the many called.
lol yes this god who calls them is unable to choose them to be saved.

their god calls but thet do not listen to the call.

makes to wonder if the chosen were ever called

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Some just don't understand Calvinism, just what is this “Calvinism” that all the “doctrinal Calvinists” have in common? It is Calvin’s doctrinal expression of the way of salvation through Jesus Christ refined through the controversies in the Reformed community that occurred after his death.

And what is that? It is an expansion of the phrase “salvation by grace alone, through faith alone.” Calvin followed Augustine and, of course, both followed Paul in emphasizing that our salvation is through the grace of God alone. That is, it is not on the basis of anything that God sees in us or that we do. We are spiritually dead, if not spiritually buried, and we need God’s grace to give us life—reconciliation with God through the work of Christ in its widest and deepest sense. But neither does our reception of God’s grace depend upon our own capacity to want it or to like it. We do not meet God halfway, nor do we come to Christ for the reconciliation that He alone can give by a free decision of our wills. We need the life-giving energy and enlightenment of Christ’s Spirit.

The grace in question is powerful. It is powerful not only to take us to glory but also, before that, powerful to renew our minds and especially our wills, bringing us to conviction of sin, to repentance, to the exercise of faith in Christ only, and so bringing about the renewing of our character that follows our justification by faith alone.

Such powerful grace came to be referred to as “effectual grace,” though this was a phrase first coined by Augustine in his letter to Simplicianus in AD 396. Effectual grace is grace sufficiently powerful to bring us, kicking and screaming and struggling otherwise, to God Himself and to keep us there. Grace here and glory hereafter.
 
(Matt 22:14) For many are called, but few are chosen.
Doesn't sound too effectual if only a few were chosen of the many called.
Luke 8:4-15 [KJV]
4 And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable: 5 A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. 6 And some fell upon a rock; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. 7 And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it. 8 And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
9 And his disciples asked him, saying, What might this parable be?
10 And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand.
11 Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. 12 Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. 13 They on the rock [are they], which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away. 14 And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of [this] life, and bring no fruit to perfection. 15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep [it], and bring forth fruit with patience.

All of the seeds that fell on soil were a "call", but only the good soil was "chosen" to yield a harvest.
Who breaks up hard soil, removes the rocks and pulls the weeds to prepare a garden soil?
  • The soil (man)?
  • The Gardener (God)?

Acts 16:14 [KJV] And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard [us]: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
  • God prepared the soil ... Paul "called" to all who were listening and Lydia was "chosen" by God to yield a harvest.

Acts 13:44, 48 [KJV] And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. ... And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
  • Almost the whole city was "called" by the preaching of Paul's words ... "as many as were ordained" were "chosen" to believe.
 
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Some just don't understand Calvinism, just what is this “Calvinism” that all the “doctrinal Calvinists” have in common? It is Calvin’s doctrinal expression of the way of salvation through Jesus Christ refined through the controversies in the Reformed community that occurred after his death.

And what is that? It is an expansion of the phrase “salvation by grace alone, through faith alone.” Calvin followed Augustine and, of course, both followed Paul in emphasizing that our salvation is through the grace of God alone. That is, it is not on the basis of anything that God sees in us or that we do. We are spiritually dead, if not spiritually buried, and we need God’s grace to give us life—reconciliation with God through the work of Christ in its widest and deepest sense. But neither does our reception of God’s grace depend upon our own capacity to want it or to like it. We do not meet God halfway, nor do we come to Christ for the reconciliation that He alone can give by a free decision of our wills. We need the life-giving energy and enlightenment of Christ’s Spirit.

The grace in question is powerful. It is powerful not only to take us to glory but also, before that, powerful to renew our minds and especially our wills, bringing us to conviction of sin, to repentance, to the exercise of faith in Christ only, and so bringing about the renewing of our character that follows our justification by faith alone.

Such powerful grace came to be referred to as “effectual grace,” though this was a phrase first coined by Augustine in his letter to Simplicianus in AD 396. Effectual grace is grace sufficiently powerful to bring us, kicking and screaming and struggling otherwise, to God Himself and to keep us there. Grace here and glory hereafter.
And where do Calvin's reprobates fit in?
 
And where do Calvin's reprobates fit in?
Reprobates are those God created as vessels of wrath and fits them for destruction Rom 9:22

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

They being outside of Election in Christ are under Divine hate and disapproved.
 
Reprobates are those God created as vessels of wrath and fits them for destruction Rom 9:22

What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:

They being outside of Election in Christ are under Divine hate and disapproved.
yet all believers were children of wrath before conversion.

see Ephesians 2:1-3

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Yes they were read Ephesians 2:1-3

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Ive read it, they were never vessels of wrath fitted for destruction, they were always vessels of mercy, objects of Gods mercy, look at Vs 4

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

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

So while they were being children of wrath by nature, they were not objects of His wrath by nature, dead in sin, they clearly were objects of Gods Mercy and Great Love.
 
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