[Mr Rogers]

“I was a Calvinist before I knew what it meant, because I could not reckon how an all-knowing God could not know who would choose Him.”

Non-Calvinists believe God knows in advance who will or will not believe Him.

“And the elect and predestined passages did not jibe with the Arminian position.”

As taught by Calvin, the 20-ish passages about election and predestination don’t jibe with the hundreds or thousands of verses about believing, faith, trusting God, real choices made by humans, etc. However, if those handful of verses are viewed as CORPORATE election - the same sort of “election” that made Israel God’s Chosen People - then all the verses agree with each other.

I recommend:

http://evangelicalarminians.org/files/Abasciano%20On%20the%20Corporate%20Perepsective%20of%20Paul%20and%20His%20Culture%20the%20Tarnslation%20of%20Rom.%209_6b,%20and%20Corporate%20Election%20in%20Romans%209.pdf

Just as the Jews are chosen “In Abraham”, so are we chosen “In Christ”. See:

https://www.amazon.com/Elect-Son-Robert-Shank/dp/1556610920/ref=pd_sim_14_46?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1556610920&pd_rd_r=FRZ2GE5KADXFRPQ2881S&pd_rd_w=WAujK&pd_rd_wg=VSCU8&psc=1&refRID=FRZ2GE5KADXFRPQ2881S

[kosciusko51]

Thanks, but no thanks.

For what it’s worth, I personally do not know of any Calvinist who believes that non-Calvinist are not Christian, but I cannot say the converse is true.