I'll answer your question, but I expect an answer to mine in return.
God is punishing the Unbeliever because they have transgressed God's laws. It doesn't matter that they may have been hard-wired to break God's laws. Sin, and by extension sinners, cannot be in the presence of a Holy God....no matter what the reason is for their sin.
In my analogy, did the Governor owe the two death-row inmates anything? Was the Governor unjust in only pardoning one inmate?
And my objections to this are evidence that I am thinking with a reprobate mind?
The unbeliever sins because he chooses to, not because he was programmed to. And thus their punishment is earned and just.
In my analogy, did the Governor owe the two death-row inmates anything? Was the Governor unjust in only pardoning one inmate?
I do get your point. No, the Gov. doesn't owe them anything. The Gov is not unjust in selecting one for pardon. He is becoming a respecter of persons if he acts in that manner.
Our objections are not to the pardons being given out freely. They are to the conditions of the sentence of death in the first place. As I have questioned.
SD