It is not a loving God Who would punish someone for not being born again if they never had the choice in the first place.
Punishing mankind for doing something they had no ability to do is irrational.
To declare that because God is sovereign He does not give any choices is also unsupported by the Scriptures. God never forces anyone into any thing. He presents the truth and expects obedience, those who will not obey are judged for that.
Also, the command to repent and believe would be irrational if it were already decided whether or not someone was going to hell. Its lying, if you preach to the whole world to trust Christ when God knows someone will not and is born to go to hell, it is lying to that person who is predestined to go to hell.
Mark 16:14-16 "14 Later as they were eating, Jesus appeared to the Eleven and rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen. 15 And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to EVERY CREATURE. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.…"
God is not a God of lies. God said go into all the world and preach to every creature, but He never says only preach to the predestined. If the preacher preaches to those who are not predestined then that preacher is lying to them. And no one can know for sure in that faulty system, if someone is a predestined one or not.
God wanted the whole world to trust in Him, that's what He said, I believe Him. However, He knows the whole world will not choose to trust Him, even though that is His desire.
Matthew 16:25 ""For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it."
"WHOEVER"
1 Timothy 2:3-5 "…3 This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,…"
"Who desires all men to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth."
Its not complicated as so many Calvinists would have us believe. In order to come up with this irrational doctrine of Calvinism, one has to twist a lot of words in the Bible and even add some that are not there.
See how irrational this system of "TULIP" is, it defies the commands and purposes of God on so many levels.
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