Can God Do Anything At All and Remain Just?

The short answer is, "NO!"

There are some here who believe that God could, if He wanted to, simply decide to forgo the punishment of Hell for the wicked. He could instead just let them wallow around in the misery and destruction that comes as a result of their wickedness.

One poster on the forum put it this way...

"God doesn't have to punish sin. He could just let humanity continually destroy ourselves in our own sinful behavior forever."​

To any person would say, or voice agreement with, such a statement, I ask...

What else could God choose not to do?

If he doesn't have to punish the wicked, why does He have to bring believers to heaven?

"Because He promised too!", you're thinking?
Well, He also promised to punish the wicked, right? If He doesn't have to keep that promise, why would He have to keep any other?

What if God decided tomorrow that it was okay to rape any woman you find three houses down from where you live on any third Thursday of the month?

Could God do that? Is your God allowed to do that? Would your doctrine survive God doing something like that? Would your faith in Him survive him doing something like that?

Mine certainly wouldn't! Would yours?

If you believe that God can choose to be unjust in regards to the punishment of the wicked, that it is somehow optional, then on what basis do you believe that God must protect the innocent from the sexual predator or do you actually believe that God has the authority to declare rape to be a righteous act?

IF God were to ever do something like that, it would prove that He was unjust, unrighteous and, therefore, not worthy of love, allegiance or even trust. It would prove that He was no better than Satan, indeed He'd be far worse than Satan - infinitely worse! Such an action would debase God's rightful authority over anyone or anything for God's authority is founded upon His righteousness. His unwavering, unquestionable, unequivocal and in all other ways PERFECT righteousness...

Psalm 45:6 Your throne, O God, is forever and ever; A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
Psalm 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face.​

 

I NEVER suggested otherwise. Not in the opening post and nowhere else either.

Of course, you knew that when you wrote this!

I am confusing nothing! I am asking a very specific question which you are afraid to answer because your ridiculous doctrine cannot survive the answer.

It is rather surprising, as it turns out, how often Augustinian doctrine of all flavors and stripes turns to dust and blows away in the face of God's quality of character.

There is a judgment that occurs after death but Paul taught explicitly that death itself was(is) a judgment, as I have already proven to you [snip]

 

Speaking in very broad general terms, I agree with you more than I disagree, but as stated, your list includes some things that might be called "overstated". Let's take them one at a time....

I Kings 22:19 Then Micaiah said, “Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the host of heaven standing by, on His right hand and on His left. 20 And the Lord said, ‘Who will persuade Ahab to go up, that he may fall at Ramoth Gilead?’ So one spoke in this manner, and another spoke in that manner. 21 Then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord, and said, ‘I will persuade him.’ 22 The Lord said to him, ‘In what way?’ So he said, ‘I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And the Lord said, ‘You shall persuade him, and also prevail. Go out and do so.’ 23 Therefore look! The Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours, and the Lord has declared disaster against you.”​

Obviously.

As per the previous point, it is not a sin to deceive and evil enemy.

Also, "cannot" is overstated here. Jesus was tempted in all ways as we are and was capable of sinning. Also, see my comment at the end of this post in response to what would have been #10 had you chosen to number it.

Isaiah 5:1 Now let me sing to my Well-beloved
A song of my Beloved regarding His vineyard:

My Well-beloved has a vineyard
On a very fruitful hill.
2 He dug it up and cleared out its stones,
And planted it with the choicest vine.
He built a tower in its midst,
And also made a winepress in it;
So He expected it to bring forth good grapes,
But it brought forth wild grapes.

3 “And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah,
Judge, please, between Me and My vineyard.
4 What more could have been done to My vineyard
That I have not done in it?
Why then, when I expected it to bring forth good grapes,
Did it bring forth wild grapes?​

Daniel 10:10 Suddenly, a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands. 11 And he said to me, “O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you.” While he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling.

12 Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words. 13 But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days; and behold, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I had been left alone there with the kings of Persia. ​

Not "late" in the sense of "too late", but delayed.

Definitely true!

I started to just add the modifier "ultimately" here but then noticed the term "defeated" listed as number 7 and so it seems redundant to do so. But then that makes this redundant anyway since you've already listed "fail". As such, Isaiah 5, as quoted above, would address this point. God was thwarted in His efforts with Israel.

Indeed, God is quite invincible.

Change in form...

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.​

Change of mind...

Exodus 32:7 And the Lord said to Moses, “Go, get down! For your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves. 8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, ‘This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!’ ” 9 And the Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and indeed it is a stiff-necked people! 10 Now therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may burn hot against them and I may consume them. And I will make of you a great nation.”


11 Then Moses pleaded with the Lord his God, and said: “Lord, why does Your wrath burn hot against Your people whom You have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians speak, and say, ‘He brought them out to harm them, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce wrath, and relent from this harm to Your people. 13 Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants, to whom You swore by Your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your descendants as the stars of heaven; and all this land that I have spoken of I give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever.’ ” 14 So the Lord repented from the harm which He said He would do to His people.
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God's character is immutable be He is not. To say otherwise is literally to give away the farm to the Calvinists because their distinctive doctrines all follow logically from the single premise that God cannot change in anyway whatsoever.

Obviously so.

Well, God is a man, MrW! The Creator became a man and He did die and then He rose from the dead by His own power. That's only the core doctrine of the entire Christian faith!

Stating that God does not act contrary to His character is a good way to put it. Saying that He cannot, as in He is incapable of doing so (as in your point 2), makes God amoral rather than righteous and leads to the Augustinian doctrines that teach that God is arbitrary rather than just. All things pertaining to morality must be done willfully (i.e. they must be chosen), by definition. It is, therefore, most accurate to say that God is unwilling to act against the current description of His character and cannot be forced to do so.

This touches on a great many important issues, not the least of which is a rationally sound answer to Euthyphro's Dilemma, which only Christianity can offer, as well as dealing with the problem of evil and other similar issues.