The whole world was lost in the darkness of (foreordained) sinCalvinism: There is no will but God's will and John Calvin is his prophet.
The light of the world is Calvin.
Since ‘Calvinist’ theology originated with Paul, perhaps your quarrel is not with the Institutes and Commentaries, or the Confessions, but rather with the Bible.
Oh good Lord....it's worse than I thought.
No, Calvin found it in Scripture and knew that Augustine had found it before him...
Try this one, too...
"Certainly such an election is of grace, not at all of merits. For he had before said, So, therefore, even at this present time, the remnant has been saved by the election of grace. And if by grace, now it is no more of works; otherwise grace is no more grace. Therefore the election obtained what it obtained gratuitously; there preceded none of those things which they might first give, and it should be given to them again. He saved them for nothing. But to the rest who were blinded, as is there plainly declared, it was done in recompense. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth. But His ways are unsearchable. Therefore the mercy by which He freely delivers, and the truth by which He righteously judges, are equally unsearchable." -- Augustine, On the Predestination of the Saints 11
Pray for ears to hear.