DrJamesAch
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The plan is infallible. The people are not. No Calvinists hold that they are perfect or that their knowledge of the Word is complete and absolute.
I think you are, again, dealing with a hypothetical calvinist that doesn't actually exist.
I have not misstated Calvinism. I have watched the statements of all of the Calvinists on the Natural Disasters thread and seen how Calvinism has been applied and the consensus is that God controls ALL THINGS. I have read all of Calvin's Institutes, and it is uniform within Calvinism God controls all things. Calvinists who follow him define sovereignty as included total control. They assert logical contradictions by saying "God controls even what He permits".
From that axiom, the Bible says "they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in TRUTH". John 4:24, and "if any man will do his will he shall KNOW of the doctrine" John 7:17. The Bible says the Holy Spirit will guide you into all truth. John 16:13.
Now, if man has free moral agency, then even though God's plans are infallible, those plans can be interfered with to the detriment of the one choosing to rebel against it. But if God CONTROLS all things, then there would never be room for dissent or disagreement. All correct belief systems should be uniform because correct doctrine is essential to ones identity as a Christian.
And that applies to John Calvin. If Calvin's system was of God, then how could he have believed in a heretical mode of salvation for infants? And if John Calvin's belief system was of God, then why did only part of it follow later generations?