(John 3:18) Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Nevermind Pharoah, and sodom and gommorah, and anninias and saphira, and esau.
(II Peter 3:9) The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Golly, silly me, I thought God got to define who this "you" is:
(II Peter 1:1) Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
The "you" are those who have a faith given them by Jesus Christ. You know.
Christians.
But nah, God's not able to define what he means, right pate?
(Psalms 7:11-13)
God is a righteous judge,
and a God who feels indignation every day.
If a man does not repent, God will whet his sword;
he has bent and readied his bow;
he has prepared for him his deadly weapons,
making his arrows fiery shafts.
There's this thing called, letting God tell us what he's like, instead of forcing our unbalanced preconceptions on him.
(Nahum 1:2-6)
The LORD is a jealous and avenging God;
the LORD is avenging and wrathful;
the LORD takes vengeance on his adversaries
and keeps wrath for his enemies.
The LORD is slow to anger and great in power,
and the LORD will by no means clear the guilty.
His way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
he dries up all the rivers;
Bashan and Carmel wither;
the bloom of Lebanon withers.
The mountains quake before him;
the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
the world and all who dwell in it.
Who can stand before his indignation?
Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.
What do you do with these passages, pate?
Ignore them?
Treat them as if God shouldn't have put them into his revelation?
Back to the ungodly slandering with untruths.
Calvin did not say WHY some are saved and others are not.
Calvin on romans 9:18:
That our mind may be satisfied with the difference which exists between the elect and the reprobate, and may not inquire for any cause higher than the divine will, his purpose was to convince us of this — that it seems good to God to illuminate some that they may be saved, and to blind others that they may perish: for we ought particularly to notice these words, to whom he wills, and, whom he wills: beyond this he allows us not to proceed.
If by fault you only mean that we have not made ourselves sinners by sinning, than that's proper.
If by "not our fault" you mean by extension, can't be held responsible, this is simply not true. God holds us responsible for being sinners, not merely for sinning.
A person is responsible for something because God has *said they are.* God establishes the rules; we don't and creation doesn't.
Which you cannot support with God's word.
Some of us are actually bound to the teachings of the bible and believe it's God's word and treat it as such.
(Proverbs 16:4) The LORD has made everything for its purpose,
even the wicked for the day of trouble.
(Romans 9:21-24)
Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honored use and another for dishonorable use? 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, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
(I Peter 2:8) and A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.
They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
(Jude 1:4) For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
(Romans 11:36) For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
ALL things. Even those who will go to hell.
Is God love? Absolutely.
That in no way reduces the fact that God is also Justice, and Holiness, and is wrathful against sinners continually.
The Gospel is Good news because it saves us from the condemnation we justly deserve at the hands of a God who can be nothing less than wrathful against our sin, because our sin and our sinful nature goes against God's very nature.
God is not merely the justifier, he is JUST (righteous, following his law and nature fully in ALL of its aspects).
