John 3:36 (CSB):
- The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who rejects the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
How could this be rewritten using the Calvinist TULIP philosophy overlaid to it (3-versions):
- The one whom God, in His sovereign and unconditional election, has irresistibly drawn out of total depravity by His effectual grace—causing him to believe in the Son—has eternal life; but the one whom God has justly passed over, for whom Christ’s atonement was never intended, and who therefore remains dead in sins and rejects the Son, will not see life; instead, the wrath of God abides on him forever, for he was never chosen to persevere.
- “The one whom God has sovereignly chosen and irresistibly drawn to believe in the Son has eternal life. But the one God has not chosen rejects the Son and remains under God’s wrath, for he was never given new life.”
- “Those elected by God and irresistibly caused to believe in the Son receive eternal life. Those passed over by God reject the Son and stay under His abiding wrath.”
Looping in R.C. Spoul’s and John MacArthur’s “programmed to believe lies” and can “never choose good”
- “The one whom God has sovereignly elected and irresistibly caused to believe in the Son has eternal life [primary cause]. But the one God has passed over—decreeing his total depravity, programming him to love sin and believe lies so that he can never choose good [secondary cause]—rejects the Son and remains under God’s abiding wrath.”

