However, and this is key, the calvinist also believes that REGENERATION PRECEDES individual Faith.
As Jesus said, "Except a man is born again, he canNOT see the kingdom..."
Once the will is renewed through regeneration, THEN he can repent and believe as an act of will.
If you don't get the sequence "regeneration, faith, repentance" correct, then you'll never understand calvinism.
But, I am just a paduwan in the tradition of someone or other. :>)
Then why the call for all men to repent?
I understand the sequence, thanks to the efforts of the Reformed here.
It’s just that as one peers a little more closely, one sees that it just doesn’t hold together when measured against the entire Bible.