Psalm 139:16 All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
And the elect were, well, elected their Salvation was there from beofre the foundation of the world.
Eph 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.
God will bring His elect to Himself before our appointed death.
You see, that really doesn’t address my argument.
Sort of, “well, I know this verse over here is true so I can safely ignore these other verses which disagree with me.”
I think you and I are both well-versed enough in the Bible to know that it’s easy to go hunting for texts that seem to support our theology. The problem lies in when your theology is utterly broken by there passages. That should indicate to you that your theology is insufficient.
Being that theology is, after all, the product of the mind of a man, or a group of men, that shouldn’t be too hard to swallow.
Jesus said:
“And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee. For it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.”
That statement utterly breaks Calvinism.
It shows that people have two, equally real, equally possible eternal states. It also shows that the person can effect their eternal state by their choices.