Dying to be green.

Winter has some spiritual advantages that are not available at other times of the year. When I drive by a pasture and see an oak tree on a hill that is covered in green leaves, I know that the tree is unhealthy since it is impossible for it to have its own greenness until Spring. Mistletoe has so invaded this tree that it has become a dominant feature; one that cannot be ascertained in any other season.
There are many people who talk as though Calvinism is a good thing: a godly doctrine. They don't want to admit that it is Mistletoe Theology. It never was any good (not even when Augustine proposed it or King Solomon flirted with it...read Ecclesiastes: interesting how the king gets truly wise when he is old), and the only reason good people are deceived by it is because they have never held a mirror in front of them when the days outside are frosty, yet revealing.
Someone needs to ask a Calvinist why Total Depravity only works where they want it to work (they want to use it to gain "Theological Power" over you and appear wise in their own eyes) and ignore what the Apostles teach about "corruption."
Oak trees are still oak trees even though they share in the corruption that is common throughout creation. The corruption of mistletoe does not make the oak tree into some other decrepitated entity. It is not the agent of "Total Depravity." It latches onto the good thing that has a name dating back to Adam. Romans 8:19-27.
You Calvinists stupidly (using a technical term here..."stupid" ("bete" in French which translates as "beast") means using the analytical capabilities of an animal) insist on impossibilities in the same way as do evolutionists. You join them in professing that Total Depravity is in operation in the universe and that the thing infected will become something new and good by advancement. You like to jabber about being devoted to biblical creation but you lie to yourselves if you hold the blasphemous doctrines of Calvin.  Your God is the universe of everything.  I have good news for you. Jesus IS God.
The oak tree is an oak tree. Infected with mistletoe, it can give up its goodness to the infection and, eventually, both oak and mistletoe will die...a second death. Humans, infected by sin/and/death, can get spiritual surgery if they visit another tree. There is still an old rugged cross for anyone who is alive and willing to kneel there.

You may be almost nothing besides mistletoe, but,
if your body can still hold breath,
you can inhale the air
of a land that is breathed into you by its king,
maker of humans and trees and every good thing.

Meet Jesus at the cross.