The problem with Calvinism is its attempt to reconcile and systematize that which the Bible does not reconcile.
Though there is value in systematic theology, there is also a danger. We must be careful simply to believe the Bible as it stands. I believe Acts 13:48, which says "as many as were ordained to eternal life believed," and I also believe Acts 13:46, which says the unbelieving Jews had rejected God's salvation and had judged themselves unworthy of everlasting life. I don't try to develop a theological system that will somehow make perfect sense of it all.
BigMack
Do you also believe that God has intentionally blinded some people..especially the jews ??
Mat 13:11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
Jhn 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with [their] eyes, nor understand with [their] heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
2Cr 3:14But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.
I hadn't thought of it that way, but that makes sense. Its like a scientist trying to assert that the wave nature of light is an illusion, and that only the particle nature of light is reality. When in fact it is "both/and" not "either/or".