Is God fair?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Carl

Sure God has some things planned ahead. But predestination precludes some from ever having a chance to be saved.

On the surface, this sounds logical. However, if one really evaluates the Armenian position, they run into the very same problem. You see, let’s assume that God desires that all be saved, and that all have an equal ability to be saved… not all have equal opportunity. For, countless billions have still never heard the Gospel. Could one charge God as being “unfair” in that He created one in the womb of a woman who lives in the heart of some foreign country wherein the pure Gospel of Jesus hasn’t been preached??? In striving to make God seem “fair”… one still must grapple with the reality that God hasn’t been fair in creating so many so far from an opportunity to be saved.

Also, if some things are predestined (planned ahead), how can they happen if everyone is chaotically doing as they wish? And if one has absolute free will… what if they make a choice other than the choice that will facilitate God’s plan? What if Judas decided not to betray Jesus? What if Paul decided not to heed the Lord when He appeared on the road to Damascus? Notice… God impresses His will on the human soul to achieve His sovereign will… even if it means giving one over to Satan himself… or knocking someone off a horse and blinding them to get them to bend the knee and stop kicking against the pricks (surrender).

God is not willing that any should perish.

Agreed, but He knows the reality that should He not act to save an elect remnant in accordance to His grace, all would be lost. And so, God has determined from eternity to save that elect body.

God does not have to have a complete blueprint with total control to be sovereign.

Perhaps not your God. Ah… but mine is in control of everything. He holds the reigns that govern the hearts of kings and nations. The sun shines, because He wills it to do so. The atoms form molecules and hold their form because He wills them to. Even the blade of grass bends with the wind because He has willed it to be so by permission or determination. Sovereign. Holy. GOD.