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Scripture Index

Every passage the casebook treats, in canonical order, with the short answer and a link. The full argument is in the file; this table is a signpost. When a file is added, this table is updated with it.

Passage Short non-Calvinist answer File
Deuteronomy 30:19 Life and death are set before real people, and they are commanded to choose. Deut 30:19
Isaiah 55:1 "Come, everyone who thirsts" — an unrestricted offer, not qualified by a hidden list. Isa 55:1
Ezekiel 36:26–27 God's initiative in the new heart is real; the promise is corporate and set beside calls to repent. Ezek 36:26–27
Matthew 11:28 "Come to me, all who labor" is addressed without qualification; the condition is coming. Matt 11:28
Matthew 23:37 Christ genuinely desires to gather; they were not willing. Two wills in one person. Matt 23:37
John 1:12–13 Receiving is the human act; being born of God is the divine act. The order matters. John 1:12–13
John 3:16 The object of God's love and the gift of the Son is "the world." John 3:16
John 5:40 "You refuse to come" is the language of will, not incapacity. John 5:40
John 6:37 The verse secures that none given is lost; it does not state the timing of the giving. John 6:37
John 6:44 "No one can" names ability, not inevitability; the drawing is the Father's teaching. John 6:44
John 6:45 The drawing is defined as teaching; hearing and learning are not the same. John 6:45
John 6:65 "Granted" concerns access and revelation; it does not say the grant is irresistible. John 6:65
John 10:26–29 A statement about the crowd, not a decree: the sheep are those who hear and follow. John 10:26–29
John 12:32 The same verb as 6:44, with "all people" as its object — the control on the drawing. John 12:32
John 15:16 About apostolic appointment and fruit-bearing, not the eternal election of individuals. John 15:16
Acts 13:48 Tetagmenoi has no stated agent; the context contrasts rejecting Jews and receiving Gentiles. Acts 13:48
Romans 8:28–30 God's purpose for those in Christ; "foreknew" is relational, and the chain ends in conformity. Rom 8:28–30
Romans 9:1–24 About God's faithfulness to Israel; the election is corporate, and the failure is unbelief. Rom 9:1–24
Romans 9:16 Excludes earning mercy by law-keeping; it does not exclude receiving mercy by faith. Rom 9:16
Romans 9:17–18 Pharaoh hardened himself before God hardened him; "raised up" is a historical role. Rom 9:17–18
Romans 11:7–10 Judicial hardening after persistent unbelief; 11:23 holds out grafting back in. Rom 11:7–10
1 Corinthians 2:14 The Spirit must reveal — which is affirmed; the verse is not about the unregenerate hearing the call. 1 Cor 2:14
2 Corinthians 5:14–15 The "all" is the same in both clauses: Christ's death for all grounds the appeal to all. 2 Cor 5:14–15
Ephesians 1:3–14 Election "in Christ": the "us" is corporate, and the purpose is a people, not a list. Eph 1:3–14
Ephesians 2:1–10 God's initiative and grace are real; "not your own doing" refers to salvation, not to faith as a work. Eph 2:1–10
Philippians 1:29 Faith is enabled and given, which does not make it a meritorious work. Phil 1:29
2 Thessalonians 2:13 Election is "through sanctification... and belief in the truth" — the means are part of it. 2 Thess 2:13
1 Timothy 2:4 The "all" is unqualified in a letter about prayer for all; "all kinds" is a rescue device. 1 Tim 2:4
Titus 3:5 Salvation is by mercy in regeneration, not by works — and not by a decree excluding response. Titus 3:5
Hebrews 2:9 He tasted death "for everyone"; the universal language is the point. Heb 2:9
1 Peter 1:1–2 "According to foreknowledge" is the Arminian ordering: God's prior knowledge of believers. 1 Pet 1:1–2
2 Peter 3:9 God is unwilling that any perish, in a context of mockers and delay. 2 Pet 3:9
1 John 2:2 The letter distinguishes "us" from "the whole world"; the propitiation is wider than the community. 1 John 2:2
Revelation 22:17 The last invitation in Scripture is "let the one who is thirsty come." Rev 22:17

How to use it

Find the text, read the file before using the one-line answer, and follow the cluster: the drawing texts (John 6, 12), the election texts (Romans 9, Ephesians 1), the extent texts (1 Timothy 2, 2 Peter 3, 1 John 2), the warning texts (John 15, Romans 11, Hebrews 3). Arguing one text in isolation is how proof-texting happens on both sides.

See also

Additional passages (second edition)

Passage Short non-Calvinist answer File
Exodus 32:32–33 The book of the living is a covenant register from which names can be blotted out. Book of life
Psalm 69:28 The psalmist prays that the wicked be blotted out of the book of the living. Book of life
Daniel 12:1 "Written in the book" is covenant deliverance, not a decree of reprobation. Book of life
John 8:47 "Of God" is moral/relational; the "cannot" is culpable unwillingness. John 8:47
John 17:1–26 A present-tense prayer for the disciples that widens to future believers and aims at the world's belief. John 17
Acts 16:14 God opened Lydia's heart to attend to the message; she was already a God-fearer. Acts 16:14
Acts 18:10 Laos is covenant language; the vision is a promise of protection for the mission. Acts 18:10
Romans 5:12–21 The Adam/Christ parallel is universal in ruin and provision; the gift is received by faith. Romans 5
1 Corinthians 1:26–31 God's choice of the lowly is about the kind of community he creates, not a pre-creation list. 1 Corinthians 1
2 Timothy 1:9 Grace is given "in Christ"; the contrast is works vs. grace; the calling is the gospel call. 2 Timothy 1
James 1:18 Regeneration is by God's will, through the word of truth, which is to be received. New birth
1 Peter 1:3–5 God guards the believer through faith; the new birth is through the living word. New birth
1 Thessalonians 1:4 Election is evidenced by the response of faith, not by an audit of a decree. New birth
Revelation 5:9 The Lamb's blood purchases a people from every nation — a global purchase. New birth
Revelation 3:5 A promise not to blot out a name presupposes that names can be blotted out. Book of life
Revelation 13:8; 17:8 The phrase may modify "written" or "slain"; the book belongs to the Lamb. Revelation 13/17
Revelation 20:12–15 The judgment is "according to what they had done" — moral, not deterministic. Book of life
Revelation 22:19 Taking away from the prophecy forfeits one's share in the book of life. Book of life

See also the name index and the Greek and Hebrew review.