Silverhair
Well-Known Member
I know this is going to sound like I'm being a smart aleck but the offer is genuine and whether it be a Bible verse or a sermon or a warning from a friend sharing the gospel - if it turns out that the person gets saved then those offers were the means for it to happen. Remember, when a Calvinist talks about someone being "unable" to choose Christ the inability is moral in nature. In other words the person "can't " come to Christ only because he won't. Moral inability is just as deadly as physical inability if it keeps you from believing in Christ but in reality it's a case where if anything God is respecting your sovereign will. If God were to say "all you have to do is leap over the church" then you could claim God was unjust if you can't do it. But if our natural tendency is to reject God because we want to then that kind of inability is our fault, not God's.
I agree that the offer form God is genuine, where the problem comes in is that under the Calvinist view you have to ask just how genuine is it. You say that "when a Calvinist talks about someone being "unable" to choose Christ the inability is moral in nature." There I have to disagree with you.
Just look at what that theology teaches:
Unconditional Election: Faith is not required
Limited Atonement: Jesus paid only for those few elect
Irresistible Grace: The elect have no choice about being elect
What God said was "all you have to do is trust in my son" that is the one condition. Under Calvinism you have to hope that you are one of the lucky ones that God chose but you can never be sure. Our ability or inability to trust in God has no real meaning in Calvinism but it does in the bible.