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Personally, I would have God just as he is because he is perfect. He would be imperfect if he were to be as you would have him to be.Even when it is obviously unjust. God taught us what it means to be just and your doctrine says he can disregard that lesson because his sovereignty allows him to punish the innocent.
That statement is false. If God did something that was unjust, then it would BE unjust. Why? Because he said that arbitrary justice is a false justice. He punishes the unjust, not the just. Romans 2 (which is in preparation for what Paul would write in the 9th chapter) establishes MEN as hypocritical because they judge men unrighteous for the same things they practice themselves. He then goes on to say that they cannot escape God's judgement who does not practice hypocrisy but certainly recognizes theirs as unjust. By the time he gets to chapter 8 he tells us that it is MAN who condemns others for the things they do wrong and GOD who delivers us from condemnation through the gospel of Jesus. Then in chapter 9 he shows us that God loved even Pharoah and was willing to give him all 10 plagues before he destroyed him, a show of MERCY, rather than condemnation if only Pharaoh would repent. He even tells Pharaoh that he raised him up so that people would see the power of God in him. Pharaoh rejected that purpose and resisted God's will that his people be brought out of Egypt.
Your doctrine preaches that God needed Pharaoh to disobey to show what an awesome God he was.
If true, this would, rather than make him great and glorious would make him petty and small. Any God who needs to pick on somebody smaller than him in order to exalt himself is no God at all.
Your doctrine slanders God. It says that he causes men to be sinners so that people can see how great he is. It is not god-like at all, it is the equivalent of a child who picks the wings off of flies.
The scripture in no way preaches that God you preach. The scripture is telling us that God gave Pharaoh every opportunity to repent, not that he made Pharaoh to sin in order to make himself look good.
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