One finds in the Bible warnings against professing believers (called “brothers” and “saints”) that they must not abandon their faith lest they come under the eternal wrath of God.

Professing calvinists today often treat these warnings as if they are “problem texts” that challenge God’s sovereign work in preserving the elect.  But if this were true, then all passages calling on sinners to repent and believe in order to be saved would also be problematic.  God is sovereign over initial faith as well as continuing faith.  If calling on people to do one is an offense against God’s sovereignty in grace, then so is the other.

The objection is an irreducibly hypercalvinist perception.