10 More Things Arminians Don't Have a Problem With, but Should

For some reason, Arminians have a problem with God ultimately being sovereign over salvation, but they do not have a problem with God...

1. Choosing to not kill Satan the moment he rebelled against Him, but instead allowing him to tempt Adam and Eve.

2. Choosing to not give Adam and Eve the choice concerning whether or not they would be tempted by Satan.

3. Not giving the unsaved or Christians the choice as to whether or not they will be tempted by Satan and/or his demons.

4. Allowing godly Christians to be unable to have children, while giving wicked people the ability to have as many as they want.

5. Allowing Satan to run to and fro on the earth seeking whom he may devour, even allowing him to tempt and try to deceive His people.

6. Creating Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, etc. while foreknowing all the decisions they would make, and still foreordaining the birth places of innocent men, women, and children that would directly be affected by such dictators.

7. Foreknowing the genocide of Israel's enemies: men, women, and children; and God still birthing children near this appointed time; instead of not creating them at all or leaving the young "innocent" left alive.

8. Creating Mussolini, Hitler, Hussein, etc. with the natural charismas, intellects, personalities, etc. necessary to lead nations while knowing how they would use His gifts. He could have easily chosen not to create them or to create them without these necessary natural gifts. There is not one soul that has ever lived that God was forced to create; nor are there any natural gifts that He has been forced to give.

9. Being sovereign over when lives physically end. The problem is that everyone dies from something; and if God appoints the time, He also indirectly or directly appoints the method as well.

10. Crucifying Christ before the foundation of the world, choosing His betrayer, appointing the exact time of His Son's death, and thus indirectly appointing the men who would nail Him to the cross. Jesus chose Judas knowing fully well that he was an unbeliever from the beginning. Judas still made his own choice, but Christ chose him first; otherwise, Judas would never have been in a position to betray Christ.

Whenever "God must be fair," is your hermeneutic, and you get to determine the definition of "fair," you end up creating a god that is not sovereign or all-knowing, just so you can make "sense" of why evil exists in the world. After all, a loving God would not create men knowing all the harm they would cause to the innocent of the world, would He?