Reconciliation would require something more substantive than that. All of us already acknowledge God’s omniscience and infinite love—and yet here we are.
I think meaningful progress toward reconciliation could be made if we took the time to have prayerful, focused, open, honest, patient, and good faith discussions about our disagreements, because I think we'd end up learning that we probably don't disagree as much as we think. Such a discussion is what I was hoping to prompt. It might not happen.
If you want to have that discussion, I am open to it, for I have been a Calvinist and now consider myself a Patristic-Orthodox non-Calvinist, not specifically an Arminian because the Remonstrant Church was a specific thing at a specific point in history, and unfortunately now it has turned into an extremely left wing church.
I want to say before disagreeing with any Calvinist doctrine my love for various Calvinist churches. I myself have been closely connected with the Congregational tradition, which is generally Calvinist. I also have a particular love for the Dutch Reformed tradition and was very sad that the Crystal Cathedral, which I visited on a few occasions, had to be sold, however, I thought the Roman Catholic Diocese was extremely respectful in their purchase of it, which enabled the continuation of the parish founded by Rev. Schuller of memory eternal. I regard him as one of the four great American televangelists, who used the medium of television to spread Christianity, the others being Mr. Rogers, a Presbyterian minister who was specially ordained to use television to minister to young children, Dr. James Kennedy, who insisted on traditional Christian morality, who I had the pleasure of seeing preach in person once at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church (I saw Rev. Schuller a few times), and finally Archbishop Fulton Sheen, who was a great Roman Catholic preacher and bishop.
Unfortunately until recently the Eastern and Oriental and Assyrian churches have been too obscure to have much cultural impact, but I think the increased awareness of them will help Christian unity, because we have in these three traditions, closely related, three families of Christians historically subject to horrible persecution, by Communists in the case of the Eastern Orthodox and Armenians, and Muslims in the case of all of them, and also fascists in the case of the Ethiopian and Eritrean Oriental Orthodox people and several Eastern Orthodox people.
Now, I think, as I said earlier, the technical solution to the Calvinist-non Calvinist impasse is recognition that God being omniscient does know who will repent and accept salvation and who will refuse it, but we still have effective free will, because the deterministic nature of reality is only deterministic from the perspective of God. Thus we must have faith that Christ will save us.
Systematic Calvinists tend to reject some of his most heretical teachings, such as the claim that God is the author of evil.
