God Uses Big Fish Blinding Lights to Convince His Messengers

The apostles were, in a sense, compelled, or convincingly persuaded, by external means. A proof that god has used externally persuasive means to insure his message is delivered does not prove that god internally and irresistibly compels certain pre chosen individuals to believe their message. The calvinistic system ultimately has not only the doctrine of election, but the doctrine of reprobation. And so let's talk about jesus' own commentary on the verse 'This is one of the things you learn in hermane': JESUS: In other words, hilihting god's power through creating and even predestining some for damnation in order to demonstrate his power over us