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He atoned for the sins of the elect before they were born again. Repentance follows as a result of this.
You have a clear knowledge of Calvinist determinism, but you are ignoring the other facets of Calvinist theology. John Calvin believed that Christ was spiritually present in the Eucharist and that we should partake of the Eucharist weekly, and that this was essential so that our regeneration would be evident, and we would not have a superficial dead faith. Unlike Martin Luther, who to his discredit preferred to disregard the Epistle of James, John Calvin actively engaged with it.
Although I am a minister in a Reformed denomination, Congregationalism, albeit an extremely high church, liturgical Congregationalist after the pattern of the King’s Weigh House, I have reached a point where while I regard Calvin as being theoretically correct owing to divine omniscience, on a practical level as far as we humans are concerned I think the pre-Calvinist doctrine, which was restated within the Reformed community by Arminius, is more applicable, because we clearly have a choice; God ultimately knows what choice we will make, but we do not, and if we take the view that we must continually chose to be with Jesus Christ in our life, that is ideal.
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