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benedictus2
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Only because the doctrine of election as Calvin and you have it IS unfair.
The doctrine of election the way we see it is not unfair. What the doctrine of election means is from the beginning, He has set out to save the world by predeterminedly ensuring the salvation of the few. Because these few (the saints) will be the ones who will help him haul the rest of the fishes aboard.
You see this by the manner with which He chose to bring about the work of savlation ie…the selection of the 12. God could have just written the Bible Himself but no, He caused it to be written within His Church. He chose to build a Church instead of writing a book. And through the cooperation of these elect, these fishermen went out fishing for souls.
Here is a secular analogy for you. When there is a plague or a pandemic outbreak, the first people that the government vaccinates are the health care workers because they will be in the frontline of the fight again the plauge. You can say that in the secular world they are the “elect”. And they are not “elected” for the simple reason of just preserving their lives. Their lives are preserved precisely because they will be instrumental in safeguarding the lives of others, of the salvation of other from the plague.
" (Rom. 9:20–24)
Paul simply says that there is a point beyond which we cannot answer back to God or question his justice. He has done what he has done according to his sovereign will. He is the Creator; we are the creatures, and we ultimately have no basis from which to accuse him of unfairness or injustice. When we read these words of Paul we are confronted with a decision whether or not to accept what God says here, and what he does, simply because he is God and we are not. It is a question that reaches deep into our understanding of ourselves as creatures and of our relationship to God as our Creator. This objection of unfairness takes a slightly different form when people say that it is unfair of God to save some people and not to save all. This objection is based on an idea of justice among human beings that we sense intuitively. We recognize in human affairs that it is right to treat equal people in an equal way. Therefore it seems intuitively appropriate to us to say that if God is going to save some sinners he ought to save all sinners. But in answer to this objection it must be said that we really have no right to impose on God our intuitive sense of what is appropriate among human beings. Whenever Scripture begins to treat this area it goes back to God’s sovereignty as Creator and says he has a right to do with his creation as he wills (see Rom. 9:19–20, quoted above). If God ultimately decided to create some creatures to be saved and others not to be saved, then that was his sovereign choice, and we have no moral or scriptural basis on which we can insist that it was not fair. I had a sense of deja vu upon reading this. I could be wrong but I think you have raised this before and I have already refuted it many posts ago but you have not given a proper rebuttal of my post.
