Because Roger...
JUSTICE means to give to each one what he deserves.
So think about that.
How does God give to each one as he deserves if the person is pre-programmed to act in a certain way
AND those that are reprobate have NO CHANCE to save themselves because God will not give them that change.
If we're all born sinners and deserve hell,
and if God was JUST,,,,
He'd send all of us to hell.
But God, in the reformed method, does not judge by violations already committed...
WE DON'T KNOW WHY HE JUDGES the way He does.
It's a mystery in your soteriology.
In mine IT IS NOT a myster.
God tells us in His word HOW to become saved....
so....
If we do not adhere to His method of salvation...
He is JUST to condemn us since we disobeyed Him and did not honor or worship Him.
Why can't YOU understand this?
You bring up a judge.
Would you like to be judged on the crime you committed,
or would your prefer to be judged on the condition that the judge in your courtroom uses,
which we cannot know what it is...but every 4 or 5 persons or so, he just condemns them to the elec. chair for no reason at all.
So, there is no standard, but instead, that justice should be meted out solely by a person's ability, and that would be the determining factor in what they deserve? Is that what you consider justice to be? One's ability? Really?
Based upon that, could anyone know where they stood in terms of their salvation? It could therefore be different for each, and every person depending upon their ability. You frame judgment within an arbitrary, variable context that allows you to determine outcome, rather than of God and of what He actually informs the condemnation is. There is no secret to it - it is not hidden: it is that "men loved darkness rather than light" - that is the condemnation, which, if not saved, we will be judged by, regardless of ability - it transcends ability and is irreparable by man because it is his heart - man is incapable of helping himself - and a belief in a faith derived of ourselves will not mitigate that, in fact it is further evidence of it, and a demonstration of what brought the condemnation .
What about those people who are incapable for reasons outside of their control to follow what you believe to be the requirements for salvation? Where is justice then? What happens to those? If they are of the elect, they will become saved regardless of abilities or situation- that is God's guarantee. Given that, your way isn't too equitable after all, is it?
Unless, that is, you are going to make further exceptions to the rules that you've placed on salvation.
[Jhn 3:19 KJV] 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
[Jer 17:9 KJV]
9 The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it?
[Heb 10:29 KJV]
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
[Rom 3:10-18 KJV]
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: 14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:
15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:
16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:
17 And the way of peace have they not known:
18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
