Is that a duck?

Does it look like a duck?
Does it quack like a duck?
Does it walk like a duck?

Then it must be something entirely different than a duck. Right?

Calvin would like you to believe that his doctrine is not fatalism. In fact, he says, "We don’t want to argue about words, but we do not allow the term Fate..."

However, he also states, "...the eternal predestination of God, by which before the fall of Adam He decreed what should take place concerning the whole human race and every individual, was fixed and determined.” (Concerning the Eternal Predestination of God, pg.121).

If you believe that everything that takes place for each individual is fixed and determined by God then you're a fatalist.

On the other hand, the Lord told Jeremiah, "...And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to Molech, which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination..." Jeremiah 32:35.

God did not secretly decree that the children of Israel & Judah would pass their sons and daughters through the fire to Molech. This was an abomination to Him and it NEVER entered His mind.

God is not dual souled like the double-minded man. He is the Rock of our salvation of whom there is NO shadow of turning. He is the Lord and He does not change (Malachi 3:6).