Is this a serious question? They are judged and sentenced to hell. It's what we all deserve, but God in his mercy and wishing to be glorified and worshiped, wishing to show his love and grace has chosen a people out of the world and called them to him through Christ. It's not by merit, not for anything they have done. It's only by God and his mercy and for his purposes.
You may decide this is unfair. What's unfair about it? The fair thing to do would be for God to let us rot in our sins and sentence us all to hell. He owes us nothing.
Do you believe the bible when it says God chose a people (Israel)? What happened to the rest of the nations? Why was it okay for him to single out an entire people group in the Old Testament, but somehow it's wrong in the new? What about people who never hear the Gospel? What do you think happens to them? Why didn't God give them a chance to make a choice?
You have to understand that we are fallen creatures, are accountable for our sinful nature, and God owes us nothing. Our will, according to scripture, is in bondage to sin. The lost man is a slave to his sin and will not, because he can not, choose God. He will always choose sin unless God intervenes. The lost man is dead in his sins. A dead man cannot bring himself back to life. This is expressed over and over in scripture.
Salvation by grace through faith which is the gift of God is one of the greatest displays of God's power in the bible and is a bonafide miracle as it quite literally defies nature.
You may decide this is unfair. What's unfair about it? The fair thing to do would be for God to let us rot in our sins and sentence us all to hell. He owes us nothing.
Do you believe the bible when it says God chose a people (Israel)? What happened to the rest of the nations? Why was it okay for him to single out an entire people group in the Old Testament, but somehow it's wrong in the new? What about people who never hear the Gospel? What do you think happens to them? Why didn't God give them a chance to make a choice?
You have to understand that we are fallen creatures, are accountable for our sinful nature, and God owes us nothing. Our will, according to scripture, is in bondage to sin. The lost man is a slave to his sin and will not, because he can not, choose God. He will always choose sin unless God intervenes. The lost man is dead in his sins. A dead man cannot bring himself back to life. This is expressed over and over in scripture.
Salvation by grace through faith which is the gift of God is one of the greatest displays of God's power in the bible and is a bonafide miracle as it quite literally defies nature.
I will have mercy upon whom I choose to have mercy and I will harden whom I choose to harden....HE is God.....end of story