What does 'make your calling and election sure' mean (2 Peter 1:10)?

Whosoever Will, There Is No Calvinist Election in the Bible: “Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure.” (2 Peter 1:10) Make it sure. A command to the man, about his election, with “if ye do these things” attached. The other side reads both of these verses as election known by its fruit and confirmed in assurance: the man active in diligence, passive in the decree. That is their reading and it is coherent. I refuse the split, because Paul does not write “knowing the fruit of your election” and Peter does not write “make your assurance of it sure.” Both name the election itself as the thing known and the thing made sure, and neither adds a decree behind it. That is a reading, and I am naming it as one. Scripture, King James Version: 2 Peter 1:10, "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:".

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This answer is the short form. The argument is made at length in There Is No Calvinist Election in the Bible: Exhibit four: election known, made sure, obtained.

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