This series is based on this 14-minute video from Alana L.: 5 Signs Your Loved One is Becoming a Calvinist Point #5 still : K (part 7): "Sovereign, sovereign, sovereign, sovereign." Robots? As I said in the last post, I believe that God gave us free-will and an awful lot of room to make real decisions that affect things - because He wanted real people, real relationships, not robots. "Oh, but we don't think people are robots controlled by God," says the Calvinist. Oh, really? Then I must have misunderstood: John Calvin ( Institutes of the Christian Religion, book 1, chapters 16-17, bold added in all quotes ): " ... the counsels and wills of men are so governed as to move exactly in the course which he has destined .... the devil, and the whole train of the ungodly...[cannot do any evil or even move a finger] unless in so far as [God] permits - nay, unless in so fa...