This is not a caricature of Calvinism. Calvinists do not normally say that God directly makes a person commit each sin. They do teach, however, that man is born unable and unwilling to come to God because of his fallen nature, while God sovereignly ordained the history in which that condition exists.

Total Depravity: Calvinism teaches that everyone is born spiritually dead and unable to come to God apart from grace. Ephesians 2:1 says we are “dead in the trespasses and sins.” The baby in the illustration represents a condition he did not choose but inherited.

Unconditional Election: Calvinism also teaches that God chooses some people for salvation, not because of anything they do or believe beforehand. Romans 9:16 says, “So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.” God decides who will be rescued from the condition all people inherit.

Irresistible Grace: Those God chooses are eventually given a new heart so that they willingly come to Christ. John 6:44 says, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him.” Those who are not given this grace remain in their fallen condition and continue to love sin.

The problem is the connection between the condition and its result. If a man never chose the nature that makes him unable to desire God, and that nature necessarily produces his love of sin, it is hard to explain why he is guilty for that result. Scripture normally connects judgment with what people themselves willingly love and choose: “people loved the darkness rather than the light” (John 3:19). Responsibility makes the most sense when the sinful response truly belongs to the person, rather than being the unavoidable symptom of a condition he could never have avoided.