“I guess the difference would be”
The real difference is that most people spend more time slinging ad-homs than they do debating what the Gospel actually teaches on sovereign grace and salvation. I guess they think that generalizations for their opponents makes for good theology.
I posted a website that has lengthy, detailed discussions on why Calvin was wrong. I rarely post anymore on religious threads, because the religious folks arguing on them are so bitter and angry that it demeans the Gospel.
Consider this: there are about 500 verses discussing faith and believing, and about 20 that mention predestination in some way. Do we interpret the 20 in light of the 500, or the 500 in light of the 20?
“And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.”
Under Calvin’s theology, “whoever” needs to be replaced with “the chosen”...