1) Is God evil in that He is unjust?
Answer: 1) Nope
2) Is God evil in that He taunts men over things they have no control over? For instance would God taunt a person with downs syndrome and mock them?
Answer: none given excelt to say it would lead you to say God is evil
3) Do you believe every passage in the bible?
Answer: I believe in the inerrancy of scripture, I don't get why you would even bother asking this question.
4) What do you make of this passage, do you believe this one? If so please explain it.
2 Peter 2:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Answer: This means that God wants everyone to be saved, but that doesn't mean he does it. BTW even by the arminian system if God wanted to save everyone he could do it as well but doesn't do it...so that argument doesn't work either way.
These questions were a complete waste of time and the reason why I refused to answer question 2 it's because it's a loaded question.
You say you believe 2 Peter, and yet 2 Peter tells us that it is NOT the fathers will that ANY man perish but that ALL would come to repentence.
If you believe the word NOT meants NOT, and ANY means ANY, and ALL means ALL, then calvinist doctrine is in grosserror because they teach it is NOT the Fathers will that all men be saved but that MOST in fact perish.
What that verse says is what God WANTS to happen. Again, because someone or THE ONE (God) want's something that doesn't imply that HE will do it.
1) GOD is LOVE ... If God therefore chose some intentionally to go to Hell, He is no longer a just and loving God, by a maniacle tyrant. How can He say He loves THE WORLD and decide to keep salvation from most of them... This makes Him a liar as well and my God is no liar
Again, God is in control of everything. Then how, is he not responsible in the armian system for doing more? Is it justifiable saying..well someone randomly listened to me while randomly others didn't so it's justifable to send them to hell? God by your own logic would still be responsible since he could do more.
2) Pharoahs heart was hardened... YES it was but only because pharoah himself denied the God of the Hebrew and refused to honor Him as God, so this was by Pharoahs choice and God gave him up to go his own way
This is were you seem to misunderstand calvinism. God's will and mans desire go hand in hand so Pharoah was hardended by his own choice and God was responsible of it.
3) Romans 1 tells us EVERY MAN is without excuse because even nature itself teaches them there is a God, and when they KNEW this they chose to not glorify Him as God, so God gave them up to go their own way
Yes, but they will not be able to see it. And certainly while nature defines a god that doesn't imply that it points to a triune God. Are Muslims going to heaven as well?
4) ALL that come to Christ are those given to Him by the Father.,,. for GOD SO LOVED the world that He gave His son so that WHOSOEVER believed could have everlasting life
Key word is believe...who will genuinely believe? God's elect. I explained this already.
5) ALL that come are recieved and NOT ONE is cast out
All who come genuinely will be God's elect.
6) Jesus, John 1 tells us, is the LIGHT which lit the heart of EVERY MAN that came into the world... EVERY man
How exactly does that imply salvation?
7) ALL these scriptures and many more work together to show us that God is Good, God is Just, God is Love, and that Salvation is for whosover will... not just the ones 'called' for its the Fathers will that ALL men come to repentance
Yep, but unless you are God's elect you cannot will to come to God because you are totally depraved.
Also if God is an evil taunter as you alledge then i can understand his conversation with Cain. I on the other hand do not believe God is evil OR a taunter, so i muct conclude that God's conversation with Cain was honest.
Actually you alladed him to be a taunter. That's why you set up question number 2 with straw man.
1) God had a choice. He could create a race of robots, put love in their hearts for Him, offer them no other choice on whom to hold to and serve. On the other hand He could desire we CHOOSE to love Him of our own accord, and even allow us alternate masters to serve. The latter was certainly taking a chance, and most people ARE selfish and wish to serve themselves, not knowing they are choosing in effect to serve satan.
So love is an arbitrary feeling? Wow awesome love, certainly violates
1Co13:4Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.
God is not false or pretentious. He is not one who forces our affections, but one who loves us in the desire we love Him back. He even loves and bears long with the wicked, calling and entreating them as He did with Cain
. Again, you don't understand the calvinistic system so I wont even dignify this with a response since it's another strawman.
On a smaller scale we as people sometimes have to let those we love go their own way... we can bear with them and entreat them and warn them of where their rebellion will take them... We can see where all this will lead them and yet to be 'righteous' we must let them eventually make their own decisions despite the fact we know the trouble they are buying for themselves.
No one said not to treat them warmly another strawman.
In this God is not unrighteous, but totally righteous and loving and careing, even entreating us as we go our own way... Even there for us IF we see the err of our way and repent.
Actually your god is an uncontrolling god that logically cannot know how events will occur.
2) God had a choice for His design...
He sure did, I think he made the best choice.
a) predestine us so that we couldnt choose salvation even if we wanted to. Never even putting His light of truth into us, never dealing with us in mind and heart. Never calling those many at all. Having foreknowledge according to HIS predetermined predestination. Creating an entire world of people for hundreds of generations, only to say, "These i will choose for heaven, these i will never give the chance"
Indeed this one IS a mean spirited and bigoted God, and we could NEVER just love Him, but only know fear, because He Himself would not love His creation, nor would Jesus have died for all the sins of the world... it could NEVER be 'whosoever will'.
You just keep showing me that you don't understand calvinism.
b) Or God in his foreknowledge could predestine us to be what He calls us to be. This God deals with every man, salvation is for whoever will. He entreated Cain and even the very worst of us.
LOOK at the fact that God PLEADED with Cain and salvation was OFFERED to Cain and God's desire was that he CHOOSE salvation and good and right... Cain HAD the choice...Genesis 4: 6And the Lord said to Cain, Why are you angry? And why do you look sad and depressed and dejected?
How exctly did God know what Cain was going to do if Cain could make an arbitrary choice?
7 If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you, but you must master it.
Useless question.
He pleads all the day long with our spirits to repent because He doesnt desire our destruciton, and yet has limited Himself not to force our affections. This God, though just, IS love and humbles Himself for our good... bears long with us, loving the whole world.
Scriptural evidence for this...
These are 2 entirely differant Gods, the calvinist and the noncalvinist, my friend
Sure are, your god doesn't exist since he violates logic.
