it right and show no sign of God’s redemptive work in their lives. This evidence doesn’t prove to us that the “successes” are God’s chosen while the “failures” are not. Still, it speaks of the way in which God’s grace seems to be unequally distributed. What explains this “diversity”? The testimony offered in Scripture is that God has chosen some persons and rejected others. Is that a gloomy picture? No, Calvin thinks. It is not really different from the message of God’s unfathomable mercy and grace