Here's an (imperfect) analogy to refute Calvinist tenets:
It's estimated that approximately 160 billion human beings have lived on the earth since Creation. So let's say each one of those people is represented by a single DVD movie ... which amounts to about a 1.8 million years of constant movie-watching time in your private collection.
Let's also say every one of your 160 billion DVDs is a copy of the same movie, so you know beforehand all the action, all the dialog and exactly how each movie ends.
The problem is that only a small minority of those 160 billion DVDs play according to your expectations, while the vast majority will not ... so you decide to throw out all the skipping, scratched, blemished and flawed discs.
Now let's assume you already know which DVDs are scratched and which ones you'll select to keep, so here's the kicker:
Does it make sense to spend the next two million years watching re-runs ... copies of scratched, flawed and skipping copies of a movie you already know backward and forward to decide which ones to throw out ... when you already know before turning on the DVD player which discs you've chosen to keep?
I suppose to Calvinists, it makes a perfectly select sense.
