(October 12, 2012 at 1:23 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: You're now Fallacious_Jeff to me:
Touché
Here's the Biblical address to argument 1..."why doesn't God give faith to all?"
Rom 9:19-23
19 You will say to me then, "Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?"
20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?"
21 Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory-
God is Holy and just. He would be completely just if he sent all people to hell because all have sinned and are born in sin.
God is merciful so he chooses to save some instead of leaving all to hell.
Why does he leave a lot for hell? To display his justice and holiness. To make mercy more wonderful or the elect and display his glory