Another point concerning Calvanism and sin. If you have no free will to serve God, then you have no free will to sin against God. So then, who then is the author of sin? Is it the individual, who without a will to do either good or evil sins, or is it a higher being who makes them do what they do.
You can easily see the falacy of Calvanism in the concept of sin. How can you say someone is a sinner if they have no will to sin? How can you say someone is responsible for that which is forced upon them. So, no one having the ability to either serve or not serve God leaves us with the option that only God can cause you to either do good or to sin??? The great falacy in Calvanism is that it is a fools argument. It leaves man both helpless and unable to do either good or bad, unless you are saying man has the power to disobey God through his free will, but not the power to obey God through his free will???
Calvanism breeds confusion. The great evils that have been brought upon us through the expression that Calvanism brings are once again being revisited on this and other nations. We shook this false teaching off of us several centuries ago, and now it appears that we have an army of Calvanists willing to bring us back to its foolishness.
Man is a sinner, by his own will he sinned against God. The devil is not the author of sin. Man choose, by his own free will, to disobey God and his commandment. Man is punished for his sin because he has a free will and is able to choose the right from the wrong. If man was not able to choose, then there would be no justice in punishment for doing wrong. You do not hold a child accountable for it's actions in the same way that you do an adult.
It is the argument of a fool that will say that justice is defined by whatever God wants. In other words the God who holds a person accountable without the opportunity to either do good or evil is just in that judgment. That is a twisted and evil view of God and His dealings with man.
You have to go a long way in ignoring the scripture to follow Calvin and his doctrine. You have to go a long way in ignoring what is plain to see all around you to follow Calvanism.
It is "God's will that all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth."
One more thing. Don't make the fools argument and say that man has the ability of his own will to offend God through sin, but not the ability of his own will to choose to follow God's commandment.