But God’s manifold promises are to His children. According to Rom 8:14, if the non-elect too receive the Spirit, are they also children of God and if so, how can God’s children perish? And if they’re not children, then how do they receive the same from God as do His elect adoption?

Only those led by the Spirit are children and the non-elect are still led by their self-determinism, with them having to choose life in the Spirit, who is made accessible to them as means of being saved. For the Gospel says, whosoever repenteth and believeth in Christ will be saved. It is not a one-time event at regeneration alone – subsequently God always puts their faith to test to expose where their self-determinism truly leads them.

Matt 24:13, Heb 10:35-39 lays down a common standard of only those enduring to the end being saved while promising the elect that they are preserved by God’s working in them. Having received all the same means except God’s nature to their own self-determinism, the non-elect are completely responsible for their fate.

So, as much good as the non-elect receive from God, it’s not with the exact same disposition as to God’s elect. Quoting Scripture without any implied offense, Matt 15:21-28 captures God’s mercy and goodness to the non-elect. God provisions the way for the non-elect to be saved – but God knows that all the non-elect will perish by their own doing.

Isn’t this then the same as calvinist predestined reprobation? Effectively, doesn’t it boil down to God pre-decreeing the end-result of all the non-elect perishing? No, it isn’t the same, for one factors in human self-determinism while the other doesn’t. (Note, predestining in this context is simply not a factor of human time but that of human actions too.) And more importantly, one upholds God’s nature as consistent in His revelations of His desire that all the non-elect may be saved conditional on faith, while the other throws a contradiction in desiring this after predestining condemnation.

The focus is not on upholding human freewill but God’s nature as consistent in all of revealed Scripture to His glory.