Read the thread, the 'comfort and confidence' is only meant for the elect. John Calvin, the former lawyer and excellent legalist said it was His choice. The Calvinists have ignored all the scriptures that support free will which offers everyone to have the choice of accepting or rejecting salvation from Jesus as according to the Bible.
Who are you to answer back to God, o man?
The same way I do everyday with prayer and supplications. How do you answer back to God? Like a good Calvinist Pharisee that knows the letter of the law but not the Spirit? Jesus knew your kind, and He didn't like them.
Ouch! But, I was referring to you and all other believers. Of course the comfort and confidence is for the believers, even you don’t think the unbeliever has a claim on the “peace that passes understanding”, do you?
The spirit of Pharisaism is that a person gets favor from God because they have it coming. I am admitting I cannot do the letter of the Law, and neither could John Calvin. If that’s what you think the reformed thinking is about, then shame on us. We have utterly and completely misrepresented the Scripture. I wouldn’t like me either, if I give you the impression this is due to any good thing found in me. It is not. The remark, “Who are you...” came from Rom. 9, not me. Paul is the speaker, not me.
So, if you think that you are rescued because you chose, you decided to seek God, you came to your senses, I am just explaining that a Calvinist thinks the opposite. We do not possess the wherewithal to make the choice, we do not seek God, we don’t come to our senses. Believers are sought and rescued by the Shepherd, not because they sought Him, but because He came and invaded our lives and made us alive, while we were yet dead in our trespasses and sin. “I chose you, you did not choose me.” Grace really is “unmerited favor”. I am not excluding you, I am pointing out what a Grace has been poured out on you. Acts 13:48 “...and all that were appointed unto eternal life believed.” That’s you too.