We saw indications of this in you before you saw it in yourself. Even when I was pretty rough in addressing your inconsistencies, I held out meaningful hope that you would eventually come around, that you would eventually see that our strange position is correct, is even downright wonderful!
(The key point is that I had no confidence in you in this regard.)
Shows why you were bright enough to be an engineer:>))
Parsing your quotation as a Calvinist does Scripture, yes, it is a "strange position". One might say, Calvinism is theological pretzeldom.