Make your calling and election sure is an appeal that goes to the heart of the paradox of election and free will. The New Testament characteristically makes room for both without attempting to resolve the apparent antinomy. So here; election comes from God alone—but man’s behaviour is the proof or disproof of it.25 Calvin suggested that Peter’s exhortation was intended to counter the error of the false teachers who mocked God when they made “His free election the excuse for every kind of license,