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I thought I was careful not to apply any form of 'free-will' salvation to the elect. The elect are saved exactly as calvinism holds it in its entirety. Well, my OP has my goal of showing how Single Predestination reconciles calvinism and arminianism - so you are going to find qualified...

No, you're not mistaken in seeing that. It's just that a plain direct reading of these passages seem to conflict with other passages in Scriptures and so we must dig in further to see what God reveals about Himself - I wouldn't call that sophistry though. It simply requires us to hold the...

Since I see mercy itself as God's grace (for even His mercy is unmerited favor), I don't think I'd draw distinctions from this per se. And this is what I'm challenging. I agree that the non-elect finally end up as the damned without the guaranteed saving grace that was promised to the elect -...

The idea was not to question your credentials. In fact, it was the opposite - to state that none of us have intellectual immunity that we merit by anything we do. For all of us are blind apart from God's grace in revealing His truths to us. And God being the great leveler, I suppose we owe it to...

But does God overcome such resistance at any point at all? For without God overcoming the flesh's natural resistance, how exactly are people regenerated or saved?

Whining, bickering? Harsh words to describe someone who sees God's revelations differently. Nobody's questioning God's choices or process - I'm questioning your and other calvinists' interpretation of what God has revealed. No man is infallible. Wouldn't you want to know what I've based my...

Completely in agreement. Single Predestination upholds your entire post in interpreting Revelations as well as other similar passages. What most calvinists do is enforce parallelism - if God elects some and writes their names in the Book of Life, then the remaining non-elect automatically fall...

How is this created by men again? God tells us that He predestined, yes - and we search in Scriptures for whether God predestined some men to salvation alone or whether He also additionally predestined some men to condemnation. Is this searching of Scriptures to know about God a creation of men...

And single predestination avoids this problem by stating God could choose to still draw the non-elect man, simply not in the same way He does His elect. The elect are the children of promise (Rom 9:8). God has promised in Himself to save the elect by working out life in them from beginning to...

Single Predestination seems to be shortchanged on grounds of being logically inconsistent. There is a sense of forced parallelism in that God must do the inverse to the non-elect of what he decrees to do to the elect - but is such parallelism and inverse of premises even logical? True Premise...

From tracing the origins of the calvinist-arminian divide, I'm seeing one of the key root issues is the calvinist doctrine of predestined reprobation/condemnation of non-elect man. Without this, a case can be made for the reconciliation of calvinism and arminianism - and if single predestination...