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AJC,

Now that's quite an indictment against a thrice holy God whose work is perfect! (Deut 32:4) Again, what injustice can you find in God if He determines to show mercy to some and not to others ALL of whom are undeserving of anything other than damnation? Well, there's no sense in me trying to explain what Paul by inspiration of the Holy Spirit has already written as an answer to those who had the same and other similar charges to bring against God:

Romans 9:11-23 (ASV) "for [the children] being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that hath mercy. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, For this very purpose did I raise thee up, that I might show in thee my power, and that my name might be published abroad in all the earth. So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will be hardeneth. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he still find fault? For who withstandeth his will? Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus? Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,"

We all must bow before the majesty of God and receive Him and all His judgments openly as He has revealed them to us. Oh, that old adage seems to be more and more appropriate as time goes on: "In the beginning God created man in His own image and ever since that time man has been trying to return the favor!"

In His marvelous grace,