Why would a loving God pick someone to be saved and another to go to hell with no action required on their part?
Why would someone that has no free will and is made to sin be punished for that sin? This doesn't sound like the God I worship.
You can be harsh and confrontational and isolate a child and make every decision for him and not allow him to grow or you can set rules and guide your child on how to live and make decisions and praise him for making wise choices and punish him for disobidence but either way you still are in control, so God (not man)in control not an issue for me.
Finally, will one of you please answer my repeated question? How many people do you know of who have accepted Christ due to witnessing on the other religion threads?
Who says God “picks” people to go to Hell? Our sins send us there without God’s help. We all deserve Hell and the Lake of Fire. It is only when God’s Grace removes the fog of sin from our senses that we can have faith in Christ.
God doesn’t owe anyone anything. So to say He is cheating someone of an opportunity to go to Heaven because of withheld Grace means that God owed the person Grace and didn’t give it to the person. If it is owed then it is not Grace.
Why would someone that has no free will and is made to sin be punished for that sin?
That charge is always leveled at Calvinist theology. However, we do have Free Will. We are free to exercise our will within the bounds of our nature. Without God’s Grace our nature will never allow us to choose the things of God. Without God’s Grace our nature hates God.
This post may help you to understand.