Then will it be with you, I’m afraid.
God’s choices aren’t arbitrary at all. Not one of the choices He made is. Every choice He makes reflects His whole character.
If God chooses according to whether a man receives His righteousness that He offers to him, then it is not arbitrary.
But if it is based on God's choice alone and man does not have a say in the matter of whether or not he will go to the lake of fire, that is indeed an arbitrary decision on the part of the Lord.
<<<But if it is based on God's choice alone....>>>
What do you mean by God’s choice alone? Every choice He makes reflects His whole character, and is never baseless. His choices depend not on his creation, but in His character. God had made choices even before man and they were not at all arbitrary nor were conditioned on anything, not on the will of another.
Man’s will is clear even in the beginning of time, that is death. But God’s will is not what man willed. God chose to save man and give him life, which is against man’s will. Is that arbitrary to you?
So all man have chosen death and hell. If then God chose to not give mercy to any one, will you hold God to be unrighteous? Now that He gives mercy to whom He will have mercy, will you hold Him unrighteous? It is not what you think he must do, such as to choose to give mercy only to them who allows God to save them, is what would make God righteous. The righteousness of God does not depend on the thoughts of man as to what is the righteous thing that God must do or will not do. Read Romans 11:33.
Therefore, the unrighteous proposition that God would arbitrarily choose people out for the lake of fire is not viable.
He did not choose arbitrarily sir. I have explained that. The issue we are at now is what is arbitrary.
Of course the choosing of God is according to that.
Just saying it is does not make your case sir. If you insist, and I have already told you why that is not so, then that’s it for you.
I believe that God extended an invitation to every single one of them. How else will they be held morally responsible for their sins on their day of judgment?
Well anyone can believe what he thinks.
<<<How else will they be held morally responsible for their sins on their day of judgment?>>>
Are they not guilty of sin? Will they not be held responsible for their sins?
Again, you have God arbitrarily choosing out people for the lake of fire.
Perhaps then we can leave it at that. We are just going in circles.
If you don’t believe that it’s all about God’s will and not man’s, that’s on you. You hold on to man’s will and I’ll hold on to God’s will.
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