Good grief man, what you call illogical, contradictory and paradoxical here in three dimensional space can be easily resolved in higher dimensional spaces.
Perhaps you have never heard of this, but God inhabits the highest degree of dimensional space......AND HE HAS THE GREATEST DEGREES OF FREEDOM, beyond His creation. What He does is right because He is free to do it. What He does is just because He is free to do it. He shows mercy upon whom He will show mercy and compassion upon whom He will show compassion because He is free to do it.
Now that is a bunch of human guesswork and philosophy that I will grant you. But to think that God is somehow constrained to the notions of justice and righteousness of mere men is sheer folly........in my opinion. But I think the Bible backs me up on this idea very strongly.
Perhaps you have never heard of this, but God inhabits the highest degree of dimensional space......AND HE HAS THE GREATEST DEGREES OF FREEDOM, beyond His creation. What He does is right because He is free to do it. What He does is just because He is free to do it. He shows mercy upon whom He will show mercy and compassion upon whom He will show compassion because He is free to do it.
Now that is a bunch of human guesswork and philosophy that I will grant you. But to think that God is somehow constrained to the notions of justice and righteousness of mere men is sheer folly........in my opinion. But I think the Bible backs me up on this idea very strongly.