I'm sorry you find God's word quirky.
You darken God's counsel with words without knowledge.
So you are saying that
God's answer to your question:
--"Who are you, O man, to talk back to God?" (
Ro 9:20)
Does not the potter have the right to form the clay as he chooses? (
Ro 9:21)
(
Isa 45:11-12;
Job 40:2)--
is inadequate and quirky (
Job 38:3--
41:34).
a) Therefore, you call God to the bar of
your reason to give an account of his justice. . .
to justify it to you. . .or he can be God no longer.
That's called turning things upside down as if the potter were thought to be the clay.
b) And you require
others to justify God to you.
It is no one's job to justify God to anyone.
It is
your job to
receive his answer to your question.
And when he then makes an end to teaching,
it is
your job to make an end to learning.
It is your job to agree with God,
It is not God's job to make himself agreeable to you.
Nor is it anyone's job to overcome
your objection to God's sovereignty.
c) And then you present an analogy which misrepresents God's justice and mercy.
Two men are going to hell
because they
are guilty
of, and
justly condemned
for, law breaking.
not because they become guilty
after their
just condemnation.
God
justly judged
both men g
uilty of law breaking.
Then God mercifully saves one of the g
uilty men from his earned and
just condemnation,
while leaving the other in his
just condemnation.
God has not denied the unsaved what he owes them and what they have a right to.
They have been given what they are due (Mt 20:13), and have no grounds for
complaint (Mt 20:14), for they cannot claim title to anything more.
God has the right to do as he pleases, as long as no one is denied the justice
to which he is entitled.
That he chooses to give some more than he owes them is his prerogative as God,
for he defines himself in Scripture thusly:
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion (Ex 33:19)."
--Ro 9:15
Therefore, it does not depend on anything but the sovereignty of God (
Ro 9:16).
He's God. . .and you're not.