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Calvinists maintain that God selected certain individuals before the world began and then draws them to faith in His Son, Jesus Christ.

They believe that when Jesus said, " No man can come unto Me except the Father which hath sent Me draw him ", that Jesus was saying that men had to be drawn to Him by God before they would believe.

Calvinists have long taught that when the apostle Paul wrote, " God hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world " ( Ephesians 1: 4 ), that it the passage is meant be understood that God actually choses believers in Christ before the world was founded.

According to Calvinism, God begins a good work in some and then continues it.

They attempt to prove this with the text from the book of Phillipians where the apostle Paul writes, " He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ ".