They do not back up with scripture, they back up with Calvin’s 5 points.
They call themselves Calvinists first and Christians second.
They have abandoned “Sola Scriptura” because they require the institutes and the lesser catechism.
You are pouring a lot of “suppositions” into the word foreknew - similar to the way the some people have a different meaning of the person and name of Jesus than a true Christian might.
For every scripture that can be twisted into the “other” gospel of Calvin, there are 10 that can’t. So much for “back up beliefs with scripture”.
How do you handle the 2 Peter 3:9? Is not God’s will Omnipotent? If he’s not willing that any should perish, then what stops them? Or what about John 3:16 — God so loved the WORLD - not his “chosen”.
I see a whole lot of Scripture quoted on this thread from Calvinists.
They use Scripture constantly.
That’s false. John Calvin’s points are based off the Bible.
It is YOU who are calling us “Calvinists first and Christians second”. I never refer to myself that way.