It's what we choose that determines if we've been chosen for heaven or hell.
Know a family in Ohio that raised Charolais cattle. Every now and then, one gets selected to remain a bull. He gets the pasture, the cows, and a long life. The others are rubber-band steers who get the grass, the butcher, and the grinder.
What's he see in the ones that get to be bulls?
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Are you saying that God created man (in His image and likeness no less!) to choose some for his "pastures" and the rest for slaughter?
We slaughter bulls for food, for hyde, for soap, for whatever use we get out of them. The "pretty" one who gets all the cows and pastures and a long life is something we have no control over. He was lucky to be born the prettiest of them all.
The others weren't so lucky, so they are used for other purpose.
But God doesn't depend on chance. His rejection of some, as you seem to imply, is because He created them with the intention to be rejected. In this case, the rejection is not a consequence but a premeditated intent.
In your paradigm, those rejected serve no other purpose. They were created solely in order to suffer.