::[https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+6%3A8-9&version=RSVCE Genesis 6:8-9] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+14%3A8&version=RSVCE Numbers 14:8], [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+14%3A24&version=RSVCE 14:24] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+26%3A19&version=RSVCE Deuteronomy 26:19] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+13%3A14&version=RSVCE 1 Samuel 13:14] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Samuel+15%3A22&version=RSVCE 1 Samuel 15:22] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+3%3A10&version=RSVCE 1 Kings 3:10]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Kings+10%3A9&version=RSVCE 10:9] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+11%3A7&version=RSVCE Psalms 11:7]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+18%3A19&version=RSVCE 18:19]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+37%3A23&version=RSVCE 37:23]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+50%3A23&version=RSVCE 50:23]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+69%3A30-31&version=RSVCE 69:30-31]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+104%3A34&version=RSVCE 104:34]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+149%3A4&version=RSVCE 149:4] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+3%3A12&version=RSVCE Proverbs 3:12]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+8%3A30&version=RSVCE 8:30]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+12%3A22&version=RSVCE 12:22]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+15%3A8&version=RSVCE 15:8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+16%3A7&version=RSVCE 16:7] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+62%3A4&version=RSVCE Isaiah 62:4] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+9%3A24&version=RSVCE Jeremiah 9:24]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah+33%3A9&version=RSVCE 33:9] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Micah+7%3A18&version=RSVCE Micah 7:18] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+2%3A13&version=RSVCE Philippians 2:13] and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A10&version=RSVCE Ephesians 2:10] <br> [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+11%3A5&version=RSVCE Hebrews 11:5]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews+13%3A16&version=RSVCE 13:16]
:'''[[John Calvin]]''' teaches that man cannot please God, that they have no free will to choose to do what is pleasing to Him. If human beings have no [[free will]] to choose to do either good or evil they cannot of themselves merit either praise or blame, for they cannot choose to do otherwise; ''of themselves'' they can neither please nor displease God, though by nature they are displeasing to Him, and therefore they have no personal moral responsibility for what they do and what they fail to do. Those who actually do good by the irresistible, sovereign grace of God's [[Predestination|election]] cannot merit praise, for they only do what He wills by his sovereign pleasure ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+17%3A10&version=RSVCE Luke 17:10]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philippians+2%3A13&version=RSVCE Philippians 2:13]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+4%3A11&version=KJV Revelation 4:11 KJV "for thy pleasure"]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+4%3A11&version=RSVCE Revelation 4:11 "by thy will"]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+9%3A18-19&version=RSVCE Romans 9:18-19]). They have no free will. Calvin reasons that if men are "dead in trespasses and sins" they are spiritual corpses, and a corpse has no will ([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+2%3A1-3&version=RSVCE Ephesians 2:1-3]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalms+115%3A17&version=RSVCE Psalm 115:17]; compare [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+9%3A4-10&version=RSVCE Ecclesiastes 9:4-10]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jude+1%3A10&version=RSVCE Jude 10]). They act by instinct as irrational animals. They are dead in trespasses and sins. They have no free will. Those who displease Him by nature cannot merit any blame or personal responsibility, for they are by nature deprived of the grace of God which He is not obligated to bestow, and sovereignly withholds from most of them, in order to allow them to fulfill without any interference their inherently self-destructive destiny, being by nature "children of wrath" (Ephesians 2:3). They have no free will. For this reason Jesus could not have been amazed or astonished by the faith of the centurion—if the man had no free will. Jesus is the divine Son of God. He knew all men and what is in man. The fulness of Deity was, is, and ever shall be in Him. The Spirit of the Father is the Spirit of Jesus, the only one who knows the Father, for all that the Father has, Jesus has. He is in the Father and the Father is in him.
::([https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+2%3A9&version=RSVCE Colossians 2:9]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A1&version=RSVCE John 1:1], [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+1%3A14&version=RSVCE 14], [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+18%3A1&version=RSVCE 18]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1%3A4&version=RSVCE Revelation 1:4], [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+1%3A8&version=RSVCE 8]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+4%3A8&version=RSVCE 4:8]; and [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+2%3A10-16&version=RSVCE 1 Corinthians 2:10-16]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+11%3A27&version=RSVCE Matthew 11:27]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+3%3A17-18&version=RSVCE 2 Corinthians 3:17-18]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+8%3A9&version=RSVCE Romans 8:9]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Galatians+4%3A6&version=RSVCE Galatians 4:6]; [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+14%3A8-11&version=RSVCE John 14:8-11].)
:This point must be [[Reiteration|reiterated]]. According to the [[Calvinism|Calvinist]] doctrine of election nothing good that men do could possibly cause him surprise or amazement or admiration for any reason; for according to this doctrine the Lord Jesus would already know that they are acting solely according to the sovereign choice of the irresistible grace of God's election, and they cannot do otherwise. The glory belongs to God alone. The doctrine of election in Calvinist theology is not based on whether the predestined elect evidently manifests the habitual practice of good or evil. What one does, either good or bad, has absolutely no bearing whatever on the Calvinist doctrine of election. See [https://jesusisworthy1.wordpress.com/2014/12/22/calvins-view-of-the-trinity-2/ '''Jesus is Worthy - Calvin's View of the Trinity''', J. Wesley Carpenter (jesusisworthy1.wordpress.com)]<br>Compare '''[[Eternal security (salvation)]]'''.