Calvinists Hogwash #2 (the elect)
More comments from Calvinists ( bold emphasis added): Only for the elect: Calvinists - by playing word-games and redefining "all, the world, grace, love," etc. - will try to make it sound like they really believe that God truly loves all people, that Jesus truly died for all people, and so anyone can be saved. But all they really mean is that anyone could be one of the elect, that anyone could've won the salvation lottery, but we just don't know who they are yet. (And of course, everyone whose name wasn't drawn in the salvation lottery is out of luck.) They'll deceptively say "everyone who wants to be saved will be saved" or "God will never turn away anyone who wants to come to Him"... but all they mean is "only the elect can and will want to come to Him and be saved; the non-elect can never and will never want to be saved, by God's decree." They've got ways of spinning it, of making it sound like they agree with