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@Ahinadab , we are very happy you are here. And 400 blessings for the
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"[God] arranges all things by his sovereign counsel, in such a way that individuals are born, who are doomed from the womb to certain death, and are to glorify him by their destruction." ~John Calvin (Institutes, 3.23.6)

It would be beneficial to explore Book 3, Chapter 23 of "Institutes of the Christian Religion," where Calvin discusses election and reprobation in detail. (a link below)
https://www.biblestudytools.com/history/calvin-institutes-christianity/book3/chapter-23.html goes on to say in Calvins view...
If God merely foresaw human events, and did not also arrange and dispose of them at his pleasure, there might be room for agitating the question, how far his foreknowledge amounts to necessity; but since he foresees the things which are to happen, simply because he has decreed that they are so to happen, it is vain to debate about prescience, while it is clear that all events take place by his sovereign appointment.

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