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Calvinist Hogwash #3 (the reprobate)

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  Right from the mouths of Calvinists ( bold  emphasis added):   For the reprobates: No matter how Calvinists deceptively sugarcoat it -  no matter how they try to make it  sound like  they believe that God really does love all people (by calling it "love" for God to give food and sunshine to the non-elect)... and that Jesus really did die for all people (by redefining "all" to mean "all the elect or all kinds of people" or by claiming that Jesus died for all people but only the elect can benefit from it)... and that anyone can be saved (merely meaning that anyone could be one of the elect, not that everyone has a chance to be saved)  -  remember that it always comes down to this: J.I. Packer  (" Election " ):  " Reprobation is the name given to God’s eternal decision regarding those sinners whom he has not chosen for life.  His decision is in essence a decision not to change them, as the elect are destined to be changed, but to leave them t