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Anybody with a sense of wisdom would know that.

Calvin's theology in which all of God's nature is subordinate to God's will has been recognized for centuries as Muslim in nature. Given where Calvin got his start and the forbidden nature of books coming over the Pyrenees from Muslim-dominated Spain and how the intellectual upstarts of France who also sought to mount a challenge to Catholicism with its then-emphasis on the ability of the church to grant indulgences, it's no wonder they would be attracted to aspects of a theology which seemed to facilitate a deconstruction of an ecclesiology they regarded as corrupt and to restore a concept of a God who was truly in charge of his creation. This doesn't mean they weren't Christians. But it also doesn't mean that they didn't create for themselves intractable problems by Calvin's insistence on stretching out the Biblical revelation of God on the Procrustean bed of human (ie., Calvin's) reason. The result tells us much more about Calvin's mind that it does about God.

I don’t know where you get your information, and in fact, I don’t care, just don’t equate Calvinism with ANYTHING to do with Islam, ok?

Islam worships one God who is Allah. Jesus, to them is a holy man, only. Calvinists believe in the Triune God.

So in your view God can’t stop people from dying if He wants to?

Either He decides when people die, or, He sits by helplessly.

I think the Bible shows the former, given the Bible verses mentioned previously.

The muslims believe there is just one God. They are right about that. That doesn’t mean I’m a muslim. They think stealing is a sin, so do I. Etc. They can have some correct concepts, as many religions do, without being the one true faith.