I wasn't referring to any attitude of intellectualism when I made the statement. Confusing the supposed "attitude" of intellectuals with the use of intellect is only muddying the waters for the sake of splitting hairs.
As far as Jesus' "anti-intellectualist" attitude:
Romans 11:25 "I do not want you to be ignorant..."1 Corinthians 10:1 "For I do not want you to be ignorant..."
1 Corinthians 12:1 "Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.."
1 Corinthians 15:4 "there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame"
1 Thessalonians 4:13 "Brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant..."
1 Peter 2:15 "For it is God's will that by doing good you should silence the ignorant talk of foolish men..."
2 Peter 3:16 "His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction."
I am intelligent enough to know that you cannot reconcile a loving God with your opinion that God simply decided who and who would not be saved and that there is nothing a man could do to change his destiny. No other Calvinist of your sort, even Edwin Palmer, has been able to do it.
All the Calvinist, at least your brand, can offer is "I don't know". If you don't know, you can't possibly know your opinion is true.
I have absolutely no problem reconciling a sovereign God with a man having a free will. It's really rather simple, but you are either too ignorant or blinded to the truth about it; that or stubborness.