You Don't Allow Yourself to Kick Your Dog, OK? - That's What John Calvin Calls a Vain Refuge

The reason john calvin totally rejects the concept of permission is because that's like saying, i'm letting it happen. And so there's a difference between permitting a child to be bullied and going out and hiring the bully yourself. The calvinist likes to equate those two things as if god permit something, it's the same as him determining it. This is often times why i've talked about calvinist ore kind of strange bedf fellows with open theists, because both assume that god can'tn something without determining it.