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No that’s just the Calvinist way of looking at it but it completely ignores John 3:16. For God so loved the world, not because He owed them anything, because He loved them. You do teach that a person cannot repent and believe unless God enables them at that is the reason why people receive the Holy Spirit and are capable of obeying Him, correct? So the condemned have never been given that opportunity and God being omniscient gave commandments knowing full well that they would never be able to keep them. Therefore God knowingly made impossible expectations then punishes them for all eternity for failing to meet those impossible expectations. God never expected man to obey His commandments because He already knew that everyone would fail which is why He made a way for everyone to be saved.That is not his justification, i.e., his defense of the facts.
That's human reasoning.
His justification of the facts is: "What do I owe you, who are in rebellion against my rulership, who will not submit to my governance of you in all things and, therefore, are my enemy?" (Ro 5:10)
I owe you nothing.
You have no just cause against me for giving you what I owe you, nothing.
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