Ramblings on Calvin

One of the problems I had with Calvin on Predestination is the line, "You can see how he gives as cause for both salvation and damnation the mere pleasure of God" (page 4). This line made me pause and think... so the pleasure of God is to damn some people to hell? Surely not. The verse that immediately popped into my head was 2 Peter 3:9, "The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance." He wants everyone to come to repentance- to join him in eternal life in heaven- so how does that line up with Calvin's theology of predestination? God can harden or soften hearts, and we are unable to love Him without the love that He first put within us, and He knows who will choose Him, but that doesn't mean that we have nothing to do with the choice. Just a thought...

P.S. commented on Skylar's "Music During the Reformation..."