That's easy! God doesn't want them to! Don't you get it? The rich are rich because God wants them to be rich. And the starving are starving because God wants them to starve. And the evil and cruel ones are doing their work because God uses evil,among other things, to fulfill His "plan." It's all part of the "plan."
***Then what are they essential for? What happens if the Reformed do no works at all?
That’s easy! God doesn’t want them to! Don’t you get it? The rich are rich because God wants them to be rich. And the starving are starving because God wants them to starve. And the evil and cruel ones are doing their work because God uses evil,among other things, to fulfill His “plan.” It’s all part of the “plan.”***
It’s certainly one of the gaping holes in Reformed theology. The claim is that works are essential; the question is asked: essential for what? Blank out.