Do you deny in your theology God determined that?
or that God works to accomplish what he determines?
How are your questions related to what I wrote? You don't seem to be addressing what I wrote with your questions.
To the opening post, I wrote the following.
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Apples and oranges. God's decree is not the same thing as Jesus' detractors not having an adequate justification for their hate. Thusly, the op appears to be making an argument built off a faulty conflation, thus committing a fairly obvious category error and/or equivocation fallacy. The op would have to demonstrate the equivalent significance or meaning of the words used (cause in one sense means the same as cause in the other sense), rather than using undefined similarity (cause and cause). As such, the opening post's verse is good, since all scripture is profitable for doctrine, but it is not good for use as an argument against Calvinism.
In short, there are different types of causation; beware equivocation. Not having an adequate judicial reason for the charge of sin, thus legitimzing the hatred of sin....This is obviously not the same as choices not having reasons or causes, nor is it the same as God's eternal design for creation.
The verse is addressing the bankruptness of their hate towards Christ; not whether God elects unconditionally or has an eternal decree. Nor does the verse eliminate the innate moral opposition of the unregenerate toward God. Rather, the verse actually demonstrates the depravity of the people who hated Christ. They had absolutely no judicial grounds for doing so. No mud that they slung ever stuck to the spotless lamb of God. The connections to John 8 and the love, hate, hearing, and truth issues are remarkable; so it seems appropriate to quote.
42 Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would
love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.
43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you
cannot bear to hear my word.
44 You are
of your father the devil, and
your will is to do your father's desires. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and
does not stand in the truth, because there is
no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of
his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
45 But
because I tell the truth,
you do not believe me.
46
Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
47 Whoever is
of God hears the words of God.
The reason why you do not hear them is that you are
not of God." (John 8:42-47 ESV)