This is a contradictory statement.
No contradiction there except in your imagination.
First, if your follow Calvin's doctrine , you adhere to double predestination. It's that simple. He did. So to identify with his doctrine ( which you have ) then you are. Is this a logical, truthful statement , or not ?
Your first assumption is in grave error. I am neither a follower of John Calvin nor of his doctrines. I identify my as a Calvinist simply because it is much easier to use that label than to go through the whole explanation of the doctrines of grace taught in the Scriptures. I don't even like the acronym TULIP for it often sends the wrong message of those truths.
Therefore if your assumption is incorrect so is your conclusion. Moreover though I own and have read Calvin's Institutes and commentaries I do not agree with a great deal of them. I have read
Jacob Arminius as well along with other commentators who are Arminian.
Your second error is to identify all who claim to be Calvinists as his followers. Calvin taught John Knox who founded the Presbyterian church. I am a Baptist. I hold to a different view of Covenant Theology. Perhaps you should do a little research before you begin to paint with a broad brush. Logical debate actually requires both participants to know not only their position but of their opponent as well. Truth cannot be arrived at with assumptions and false premises.
Second, if you do identify yourself as adhering to Calvin's doctrine, and adhere to double predestination, then you cannot say with integrity that man has choice. It's illogical and also conflicts with the doctrines of Calvin, which you have identified yourself with.
Nonsense. Double predestination has nothing to do with free will. We are not robots. We make choices according to that which we desire the most. We are as free as a frog in a snakes's belly. We can jump in any direction we desire but simply cannot escape our confining nature. We can wish ourselves to fly but have not the ability to make it happen. We are sinners by nature, by choice and by practice.
God determining whom He will save according to His righteousness and justice in the life and sacrifice of His Son and whom He will deal with in righteousness and justice according to their works is not illogical nor a contradiction. He can do whatever He will with His own.
I do however believe that man CANNOT come to God on his own terms. No "free willer" I know says this. But it's funny you claim that man has free will but call people who believe in free will "free willers"... Is that not a contradiction as well ?
No contradiction at all. Of course no freewiller will admit his own belief that his salvation depends on him. If he did he would be going against everything revealed in the Scriptures. But admitting to it and it being true are birds of a different feather. The simple logic that states that man makes the final decision cannot be ignored. Either salvation is all of God according to His sovereign grace or it is of man who chooses to save himself with God's help. Their is no other alternative. Either man saves himself by his free will choice or God saves him by giving him a new life and will in the new birth before he can make that choice. If it is God who gives man life and faith in Christ, and the Scriptures teach, then man's choice is of no consequence. It is the natural outcome of being born from above. If it is man;s faith that gives him life then it is man who makes the difference rather than God. The freewiller can boast before God because he did something that those in Hell did not.
There is no way around this conclusion. You either save yourself with God's help or God saves you.
If you follow Calvin's doctrine of predestination, then go ahead and throw in the pound with your penny. Double predestination is what is at the end of Calvin's doctrine my brother. It is. And if that is the logical end of the theology , then man has no free will. Calvin believed it, so someone who claims his doctrine should too.
I have already stated that I have no problem with double predestination if that is what the Bible taught. But since it isn't then we are left with what I have taken the time and effort to explain.
Concerning my testimony, I ran from God knowing what I should do for years. THE WHOLE TIME MY GOD WAS LOVING AND PATIENT AND LONGSUFFERING WITH ME. I finally came to repentance in my late 20's. I was raised in church, baptized as an small child. Was I saved ? NO. Did God plant a seed in my life then ? YES. When I came to genuine repentance, I was truly born again and was baptized again to genuinely show I identified with Christ as a follower of Him.
So how many times did you hear the Gospel but didn't give it any regard? A thousand? Ten thousand? What made the difference when you did hear it? Was it not the Spirit that opened your ears and eyes and made you see your need of Christ? Why did He do that for you but not all the others that left the service without trusting Christ? Who was it that made the difference? Was it you or was it God's sovereign electing love giving you life and faith in Christ?
I answered your question. Now please answer this. Did Calvin , Or did Calvin not adhere to double predestination ?
I honestly do not know if Calvin believed in double predestination. It has been years since I read his Institutes and my memory is failing.