Woody- do you think sounding cryptic makes you sound intelligent? I think you are not a Calvinist but a mystic pretending to be a Calvinist because you think they are 'intellectual'. When push comes to shove it is your 'experiences' that come into play, not scriptures.
No doubt but ye are the people and wisdom shall die with you(Job.12:1)
Ummm! If a man has not had as you put it an "experience" then how can he say he is born again?
Oh, that's right, you think that decisions create character! Well, I say that experience (tribulation) produces character! I wonder which one of us the Bible will say is right!?!