Ordination is not a unilateral act. It involves the coming together of two wills
➛ the will of the ordainer
➛ the will of the one ordained
Ordination is not predestination.
When men try to understand and give explanations for what is happening in other men's minds and lives they miss the mark - virtually every time.
Moses THOUGHT God hardened Pharoah's heart as it made no sense that Pharoah would endure the plagues and be so stubborn. WRONG!
When the Jews rejected Jesus and killed Him it was God's fault. They had no choice. WRONG!
In the writer cannot understand why some believed and some did not so he assumed God made the choice. WRONG.
Paul implies God placed blindness on Israel. WRONG. He did not. The Jews chose to reject the Truth.
The Jews have chosen to teach their children to reject Christ for 2000 years. God did not do that.
Stop imputing evil to God and place the blame on people.
Paganism has a history of blaming God for all sorts of things - storms, droughts, fires, disease, attacks by enemies.
Men throughout the O.T. had tinges of paganism in their concept of God.
That is why Jesus referred to Himself as the Truth - ABOUT GOD.
Calvinism is a continuation of the pagan concept of God as a manipulator.
Calvinists sumply need to be baptized with the Holy Spirit Of Truth to receive revelation knowledge of the goodness of God and the magnitude of His gifts to mankind.