Calvinism not only is just, it makes so much more sense than Arminianism.
Let's start with these simple, true propositions.
- God is all-wise, He does not make mistakes.
- God is all-powerful.
- God is all-knowing.
- God creates every single human, in His image.
- There is a Hell, where unsaved sinners who have rejected Christ will go and suffer for all eternity.
- The majority of the world are not saved Christians.
Taken together, this means that God knowingly, willingly and deliberately creates billions of people who He knows will suffer eternal agony and torment in the fires of Hell, He creates the reprobate with full knowledge of their eternal fate beforehand.
Why do you believe that an all-knowing, all-wise, all-powerful God created the souls of billions of people that He knows fully well, before He even creates them, will reject His Son Jesus as Savior, and die in their sins and be consigned to everlasting torment in a fiery lake, Hell?
Does He create them in the hopes that they will believe on Him? Obviously not, because He is omniscient, has perfect, infallible knowledge, and has always known that they will not believe on Him. By creating the souls of these people with perfect knowledge they will never believe, is He not sealing their fate by the mere *act* of creating their souls? Yes, He is.
Is God not, in effect, creating these people solely for Hell by making them? Yes.
Ultimately, Arminianism makes God a failure, a God Whose purposes can be thwarted and withheld from Him, contrary to Job 42:2 ("I know that You can do everything,
And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You"), since He is essentially "trying" to save everybody, and failing. The only way to for God
not to be a failure under Arminianism is if you are a universalist, which is also unscriptural, as there are innumerable passages in the Bible confirming the existence of Hell and that people go there, the unsaved particularly.
Yes, Calvinism is just.
We are all sinners, and none of us are deserving of God's grace. Heck, the entire reason it is called grace is because it is a gift we didn't earn, which the Lord sovereignly distributes to His sheep, according to His good pleasure.
The verses have already been mentioned, but I will add them again, in case they were missed.
Proverbs 16:4 - The Lord has made all for Himself,
Yes, even the wicked for the day of doom.
John 6:37 - All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.
John 6:44 - No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day.
John 6:65 - And He said, “Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father.”
Romans 9:21-24 - Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?