[HarleyD]

But that the Reprobate will not be saved is true from their birth.

The book of Life was completed before the foundations of the universe. The synergist would say God foreknew they would come to Christ and so wrote their names in the book of Life. Under either the synergistic or monergistic theology, people have/have not been saved since their birth. The reprobate (non-elect) will be passed over. They are not covered by the atoning blood of Christ. You can't change a person's status who's name is not written in the book of Life.

BTW-It is interesting that synergists will say God wrote people's names in the book of Life at the beginning of the universe, and then turn right around and say you can fall from grace.

Nothing can change their Reprobate status - born and forever Reprobate.

Only God can give us a new heart and spirit. People cannot. To think we can change our status is Pelagiamism and heresy.

Further there is no difference in the guilt or innocence between them or the Elect.

You make this too complex. There aren't guilty/innocent non-elect just as there aren't guilty/innocent elect. No one is "innocence". We are ALL guilty before God.

You simply think it's unfair or unjust of God to be able to choose those who go with Him. Well, He's been doing this for a very long time.

[D-fendr]

Thanks for your reply. There's still a difference between foreknowledge and predestination that gets often lost in Calvinism.

No one is "innocence".

This discussion started with the question of how a just God can kill innocent children. The Calvinist solution is that there are no innocent children.