I wasn’t trying to say that Calvinism was “inconsistent with the preaching of the Gospel.” What I was trying to point out was that just like jude24 was making a comment about Arminianism, an Arminiast(?) could make the same claim about Calvinism, if you get my meaning.
Well, sure, an Arminian can make whatever claim he wants. He just has to lie about Calvinism first to make his claim.
Like I said, I fall in between the Calvinist and Arminiast camps. I believe both are true. ‘But how can that be’ you ask. Well, I will tell you.
If Arminianism is man's perspective and Calvinism is God's perspective as you say, which "mind" would you rather have? Would you rather have the immature mind of a son who doesn't speak for his father or would you rather have the mind of a son who speaks as if he is a replica of his father:
Jhn 14:9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you so long, and yet you have no known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say 'Show us the Father'?
And the Modalists thinks that Jesus is the Father. He just doesn't think like a Jew for this is a remarkably Jewish thing to say. (Perhaps this is where Jesse is going with his Issachar comment)
The choice is yours; you can continue on in the childish things, or you can begin to grow up and come into full agreement with the Father in all things. When you were born of God, when you received Him, you were adopted into the family of God, but you are not yet fully a son of God, speaking and acting with the full Authority of the Father:
John 1:12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become sons of God,... who were born... of God.
If you have received Him, meaning if you have been born of God, then you have the authority to become a son of God, speaking as if you are a replica of the Father. The choice is yours, but here is how the Son of God speaks:
"No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day."
"All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out."
"This is the will of the Father who sent Me, that of all He has given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up at the last day."
"But there are some of you who do not believe. Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father."
From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more.