You ignored the fact that evil was determined by God before man was ever created
as well the fact Calvinism teaches man was determined by God to hate him, be unable to understand the gospel,
obey the law or respond positively to God. What you call natural darkness is that which was decreed by God
You are simply ignoring the necessary ramifications of what divine meticulous determination entails
and are inconsistent
and contrary tro your claims there are Calvinists who admot as much
John Calvin himself taught:
“Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.” (John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 16, Paragraph 3)
“thieves and murderers, and other evildoers, are instruments of divine providence, being employed by the Lord himself to execute judgments which he has resolved to inflict.” (John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 17, Paragraph 5)
“We hold that God is the disposer and ruler of all things, –that from the remotest eternity, according to his own wisdom, He decreed what he was to do, and now by his power executes what he decreed. Hence we maintain, that by His providence, not heaven and earth and inanimate creatures only, but also the counsels and wills of men are so governed as to move exactly in the course which he has destined.” (John Calvin,Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 16, Paragraph 8)
“The devil, and the whole train of the ungodly, are in all directions, held in by the hand of God as with a bridle, so that they can neither conceive any mischief, nor plan what they have conceived, nor how muchsoever they may have planned, move a single finger to perpetrate, unless in so far as he permits, nay unless in so far as he commands, that they are not only bound by his fetters but are even forced to do him service” (John Calvin, Institutes of Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapter 17, Paragraph 11)
Did he misunderstand Calvinism
or how about
From the website of Dr James Anderson
Analogical Thoughts
Divine Determinism
Divine determinism, broadly defined, is the doctrine that everything is determined
by God. So defined, divine determinism isn’t committed to any particular account of
how God determines everything, only that he
does do so.
Divine determinism doesn’t entail logical determinism, physical determinism, or causal determinism. It is conceptually distinct from all the types previously discussed.
I think it’s beyond reasonable dispute that
Calvinism is committed to divine determinism, since historic Calvinism teaches that God actively foreordains all things; for every event E, God wills that E occurs, and God’s willing that E occurs is a sufficient condition for E’s occurrence
John Piper Audio transcript
How do we know that God
always
controls
everything
? My answer is that we know this because the Bible
or this from the desiring God website
Yet this is not to say that God does not
create, send, permit, or even
move others to do evil, for Scripture is clear that
nothing arises, exists, or endures independently of God’s will. Thus, when the writer of Hebrews states that Christ “upholds the universe by the word of his power” (1:3), he is claiming that God the Son is providentially governing everything through sustaining all of the universe’s objects and events as he carries each of them to its appointed end by his all-powerful word. This follows from the fact that the Greek word for “upholds” is
pherø, which means to bring or bear or produce or carry.
As Wayne Grudem notes,
pherø “is commonly used in the New Testament for carrying something from one place to another, such as bringing a paralyzed man on a bed to Jesus (
Luke 5:18), bringing wine to the steward of the feast (
John 2:8), or bringing a cloak and books to Paul (
2 Timothy 4:13).” Consequently, in our verse’s context it “does not mean simply ‘sustain,’ but has the sense of active, purposeful control over the thing being carried from one place to another,” especially since
pherø appears in our verse as a present participle, which “indicates that Jesus is ‘continually carrying along all things’ in the universe by his word of power” (Grudem,
Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine [Zondervan, 1994], 316). So here is the picture: God the Son holds each and every aspect of creation, including all of its evil aspects, in his “hands” — that is, within his all- powerful and ever-effectual word — and carries it by that word to where it accomplishes exactly what he wants it to do.
Ephesians 1:11 goes even further by declaring that God in Christ “
works all things according to the counsel of his will.” Here the Greek word for “works” is
energeø, which indicates that God not merely carries all of the universe’s objects and events to their appointed ends but that he actually
brings about all things in accordance with his will. In other words, it isn’t just that God manages to turn the evil aspects of our world to good for those who love him; it is rather that he himself brings about these evil aspects for his glory (see
Exodus 9:13-16;
John 9:3) and his people’s good (see
Hebrews 12:3-11;
James 1:2-4).
This includes — as incredible and as unacceptable as it may currently seem — God’s having even brought about the Nazis’ brutality at Birkenau and Auschwitz as well as the terrible killings of Dennis Rader and even the sexual abuse of a young child:
