Well, i am not a calvinist, calvinist believed that an elected person will be saved even if they not share the Word of God.
What if Calvinists believe that an elected person also has the responsibility to share the word of God, would you then consider yourself Calvinist?
It is not true that Calvinists do not believe they have a responsibility to evangelize.
Calvinism and Evangelism
Bill Welzien
... At this point, the non-Calvinist infers that the impetus and urgency to proclaim the gospel is gone, or diminished at best. After all, if God knows who is going to be saved, and if he will save his elect no matter what, why waste our time evangelizing?
But it is important to recognize that the God of the Bible ordains not only the end (salvation) but also the means to the end (the proclamation of the gospel).
Jesus is the Good Shepherd. And through evangelism, he is calling his sheep to himself. He calls his own sheep by name, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice (John 10:3-4). They know his voice because, at God's appointed time, the Holy Spirit gives the elect ears to hear and hearts to understand (Matt. 13:23).
... Does Calvinism take the wind out of the sails of evangelism? Properly understood and sincerely believed, it does exactly the opposite. Believing that God has a sovereign plan to bring all his elect to himself actually encourages evangelism. It gives confidence to us, God's people, to fulfill our God-given responsibility to spread his gospel. We know that our labor in the Lord is never in vain (1 Cor. 15:58)! http://www.opc.org/new_horizons/NH01/07b.htmlCalvinists believe that those who will be saved were predestined to be saved. But they also believe salvation is the end result; that evangelization is the ordinary means to that end; that God brings the elect to Himself though the preaching of the gospel.
Therefore, Calvinists are encouraged to evangelize God's word to to others.
In fact, John Calvin himself viewed evangelism as an obigation of the elect. Calvin wrote:
"It is a sacrifice well-pleasing to God to advance the spread of the gospel.""It is very just that we should labor ... to further the progress of the gospel.""We must, in gratitude, bring the gospel to others in distress or appear ungrateful to God for our own salvation." http://biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/ref-rev/10-4/10-4_beeke.pdf Election is Biblical since it is in the Bible, apostles use them in theie greetings to churches, they use it to glorify God, to show the grace of God.
Yes, election is biblical.
But the problem is not the word itself; the problem is Calvinism's misunderstanding of the word.
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2 Timothy 1:9 - Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
Tama. God called us according to His purpose and grace.
What was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began? The plan of salvation. Not the individual's predestination to salvation, just the plan of salvation for all.
What's the plan? You will receive salvation on the condition that you have faith in Christ.
Therefore, you're free to refuse if you don't want to comply with the condition.
That's free will, not predestination.
John 6:44 - No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Tama. The Israelites rejected the Father, that's why they can't come to the Son.
This is the proper approach to understanding the principle:
Unlike your prior 2 Tim. 1:9, this verse is about the Jews. If an Israelite accepted the Father, then he would also accept the Son, because the Father and the Son are one. Since the Israelite who previously accepted the Father first belonged to the Father, the Father will now turn him over to the Son.
This has nothing to do with Calvinism. In Jesus' time, the Jews insisted that they were right with God, but Jesus declared the opposite:
“You know neither Me nor My Father; if you knew Me, you would know My Father also.” (John 8:19) “He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God.” (John 8:47) According to Jesus, the problem of the Jews was simple: The Jews rejected the Son because they rejected the Father:
“I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me.” (John 5:43) To understand your cited John 6:44, let's look at John 6, this time from verse 41. Note that
the audience are the Jews:
41 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?”
43 “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. 44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. First step, the Jewish faithful, through their own free will, must receive the Father. Since the Father and the Son are one, those who receive the Father should also receive the Son. Then the Father
draws them and
delivers them to the Son.
See the related verse to see what happens after the Father draws the believing Jews: He delivers them to the Son:
27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. (Mt. 11:27) First, the Father has the Israelites who by free will belong to Him, then the Father draws them and transfers them to the Son.
That's why for the Israelites of the day, they can't get to the Son unless the Father draws them to the Son, because the starting point is the Father.
How do the Israelites start with the Father? By predestination? No. They must do something of their own free will --- hear and learn from the Father.
That's why the above-quoted John 6:45 says:
They will all be taught by God. Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. First --- taught by God, with this condition --- the Jews hear and learn from Him. They are free to refuse to hear; they are free to refuse to learn.
If the Jews freely hear and learn from the Father, they belong to the Father, then as a continuation, since the Father and the Son are one, they continue to freely come to the Son. It does not say a certain group that was predestined since the beginning of time will come to the Son.
That's free will, not predestination since the beginning of time.
John 6:37 - All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
Tama. We're still in John 6, so the principle is the same.
In the doctrine of predestination, the starting point is always election of the saved since the begining of time, which is unbiblical.
But in this verse, the starting point is the Jews who by free will received the Father. Then the Father turns them over to the Son, and they continue in free will to have faith in the Son. Those Jews who continue in free will to have faith in the Son will not be rejected by the Son.
That's still free will; still not predestination.
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God draws me, Holy Spirit touched my heart upon hearing the Word of God and I believe and accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour.
Without the Holy Spirit human will always willingly reject God's grace that is salvation in God alone. Human will always make effort to save themselves not recognizing the very effort Jesus did to save them.
If the Holy Spirit touched your heart, do you have free will to reject it?
Or is it, according to Calvinism, an "Irresistible Grace" that is impossible to resist?
If it is an irresistible grace, then it is not free will.
Are you sure you're not a Calvinist?