According to Calvinism, God does not "save them that believe."
According to Calvinism, God does not "save them that believe." Instead, as Warren sees it: "It is by the foolishness of preaching that God saves those who are ordained to eternal life." In Calvinism, one has to have life to get life. Gerstner makes it plain that those who come to Christ are already saved: "We must not get the notion that people come to Jesus and as a result of that they are 'born again' by God. On the contrary, we see what people do when they are left to themselves: they do not believe; they do not come to Jesus. Those who do come to Jesus are not therefore born again, but on the contrary indicate that they have been born again. In other words, they are not born again because they come to Jesus, but they come to Jesus because they have been born again." But if a man comes to Christ because he is already born again then Irresistible Grace as to be what actually saves him. In the Bible, God saves those who believe: For ...