Why would God punish people that have no chance of salvation?

[Alive in Christ]

Originally Posted by seekingthetruth...

I think I have the Calvinist teaching about the non-elect figured out.

It's like this:

I don't allow my 6 year old son to run the lawn mower because he is too little.
But, I am still going to punish him for not mowing the yard.

Is that about right? Is that justice?

Winman then posted...

A more accurate analogy would be a man who builds a robot and hardwires it so that regardless of the command given it, it will always walk away from him. He then commands it to come to him, but of course the robot walks away from him. He is then angry at his robot because it will not come to him and destroys it.

Both of these are excellant examples of the craziness that is the norm with Calvinistic theology.