Who is CTD?
Moreover, I would give him the benefit of the doubt.
This is not a 'debating' contest.
As Corin pointed out, some have better debating skills then others, yet, no sinful man is going to out debate Satan, but that does not mean that he is right.
Now you know that the issue in unconditional election and conditional election is the Love of God and the Justice of God.
Why would a loving God create beings for the purpose of sending them to hell when He could save them with a soverign decree as He does the 'elect'
How is God Just in saving some and not all when all deserve the same fate and the fact is, man is in the position that he is in because God decreed Adam's Fall.
The Calvinist runs to Sovereignity, but Sovereignity cannot contradict God's very nature, as expressed in Scripture.
God is sovereign, but not in the way expressed in TULIP.
Sovereignity cannot contradict God's very nature, as expressed in Scripture.
As it has been presented by the Calvinsits here, it doesn't