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Again, as evidenced on this thread over and over, if we get justification wrong, just about everything else that follows is off, misdirected away from the Creator and instead, toward the creature and his own ability.

We are saved by God's grace alone through faith alone in Jesus Christ alone as revealed to us in Scripture alone via the Holy Spirit alone who works in us to bring us to understanding and to produce good fruit.

It is ALL of Him; and none of us. Thank God.

Christ's righteousness is counted as ours, and therefore we are acquitted of our sins and welcomed by God who sees His Son within us, according to His gift of the Lamb slain for His flock from the foundation of the world.

"But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord." -- 1 Corinthians 1:30-31

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." -- 2 Corinthians 5:21

OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT IN OURSELVES
by John Calvin

"...a man will be justified by faith when, excluded from the righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ and clothed in it appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous. Thus we simply interpret justification as the acceptance with which God receives us into His favor as if we were righteous. And we say that this justification consists in the forgiveness of sins and the imputation of the righteousness of Christ. ..."

"...clothed in the righteousness of Christ." Amen.

A fine declaration.

You dismiss Irenaeus, and, I suppose, all the other Church Fathers who wrote on heresies, and quote Calvin. That’s a way to convince. The Church Fathers knew less than and were less holy than Calvin. Have you noticed that almost all of the verses that you quote support single predestination, by the way, and do not address double predestination at all?

:::”But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.” — 1 Corinthians 1:30-31:::

I agree whole heartedly. Let all of us glory in the Lord.

Any further commentary on the other heresies?