And, as usual, that reponse relies on barbaric theology from a hateful, murdering and evil tyrant.
The role of the Church is well documented in Scripture. The Reformed Scripture appears to have been well emasculated to the point where poisonous theologies in direct opposition to the message of Christ are widely celebrated. I have refrained from returning the compliment of Calvin to the seat of St. Peter; I shall do so no longer.
The evil of Calvinism is precisely in its dissection of Christianity; in the severing of the people from hope and from its innate and intential creation of an undeserved elite that sneer at the undeserved non elite.
I ask again; have you taunted any Reformed non elite today? When you do, does it give the Reformed elite pleasure? Does it give the Reformed God pleasure?
Calvin in life was a theological tyrant and a murderous monster. His offspring, thankfully dying off, provide ample evidence of his evil. I do not think that Calvin was ever important enough to be the antichrist. I do, however, think that he was bought and paid for by satan in the same fashion that the English parliament was when they commissioned, bought and paid for the Westminster Confession.
"Those things which seem contingent, are yet ruled by the certain providence of God...Nothing is contingent, for everything that takes place flows from the eternal and immutable counsel of God" -- John Calvin, Jer. V:428
Even the errors of Rome (and its strange and "elitist" fantasy that the Sermon on the Mount was addressed only to the apostles and not to all believers) even those errors are ordained by God for His glory.
"For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you." -- 1 Corinthians 11:19
All who have Trinitarian faith in Jesus Christ are most probably among the elect, Mark. That's because Trinitarian faith in Jesus Christ is a gift of grace from God to His children to bring them to Him and make them like Him who "is before all things, and by Him all things consist."