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Exactly. The scales fall off the eyes of those who have been born again. They just did not have all the facts, and/or they did not logically connect all the facts, until they heard them presented as the system of doctrines known also as "Calvinism". This is very common among many believers and while not ideal, is not a problem. The Lord knows who His sheep are.

However, a person that hears the doctrines of grace, a.k.a. Calvinism, COMPREHENDS them and their scriptural basis, and yet stubbornly rejects them, is in grave spiritual danger. I am certain that if a person dies rejecting and deriding Calvinism, and has CORRECTLY understood it (God alone is able to discern this), he cannot have been saved, and is destined for eternal damnation. The reason, as Pilgrim has pointed out, is that they have put their faith in a God and Christ that is NOT the God and Christ of the Bible. I know I am going to attract flak and hate, but I'll say this anyway: we cannot be certain that Arminius and Wesley were saved.

This is how high the stakes are.

The $64 billion dollar question is this: Why were you saved, and the other person not, when you heard the Gospel preached? After all, the prevalent opinion is that God is an equal-opportunity God, and gives everybody a chance, even a second chance (prevenient grace, common grace, etc.). When push comes to shove, the only answer at the end of this trail is that you believed, and the other person did not. All things being equal, it was YOU who believed, and that was what made the difference!

No. No. No.

If you would like this expounded elegantly, may I recommend the following article

http://the-highway.com//grace_Pilgrim.html