This is one of the major differences in the way you and I understand God. I believe his intentions toward humanity always good...
So your god is an altruist, who cares for others more than he cares for himself?
You don't belive in the Biblical God.
I do.
they always begin with mercy, love, patience, and kindness.
You believe in half of a god, for you are ignoring half of His attributes.
You are ignoring His wrath, power, holiness, hate, jealousy, etc. etc.
He expresses what you might call the "positive" (for man) attributes on the elect.
He expressed what you might call the "negative" (for man) attributes on the reprobate.
He knows we are but dust, a vapor in the wind and he deals with each of us gently. If we persist in our rebellion toward him then there comes a point that he leaves us to our own delusion and sin, and metaphorically turns his face from us and punishes us for our wrongdoing.
You make God dependent on man, since you have Him "reacting" to man.
In your world, man is in control, and God is a slave since he "reacts" as man controls him.
God takes absolutely no pleasure or glory in punishing the wicked.
That's completely unBiblical.
The quote you're alluding to does not have, "or glory".
He punishes the wicked to express His HOLINESS and JUSTICE, not for "pleasure".
God foreknows all of this, all of our resistance and all of his loving influences shown toward us to draw us to himself. And based on that foreknowledge Romans 8: 29-30 Paul could follow up to write Romans 9: 22-23.
I just wrote a post explaining the TRUE meaning of "foreknowing".
I suggest you read it.
You would at least learn that Rom. 8 doesn't say anything about "foreknowledge" (the noun), it talks about God's action of "foreknowing" (the verb). But heretics like you always have to CHANGE Scripture (like when you added "or glory" to Ezek. 33:11.
I like my Scripture "straight up", and not mixed in a blender with other ingredients.
My interpretation of Romans 9: 22-23 ...
... is not something I'm the least bit interested.
Opinions are like sphincters.
They left God no option but ...
Wow.
Your god is weak and impotent.
Your assertion that it was specifically God's intention in creating and predestining vessels for wrath so that he could show off his wrath and power against the wicked is like justified premeditated murder.
Really?
So are you calling the judge who sentenced Manson to the death penalty was a murderer?
How about the judge who sentenced Scott Peterson to death? Was he a murderer too?
You seem to be trying to defend enemies of God.
You seem to think they are innocent victims, rather than the evil sinners that they are.
Why are you trying to defend evil sinners?
It makes God out to be more wicked than those he is punishing because, from your understanding, the wicked had never had a choice.
Nope.
I NEVER said "the wicked had never had a choice".
They ALL had a choice.
They ALL chose to sin.
And now they have to live with the consequences of their choices.
That doesn't make God a "murderer".
It makes Him JUST.
It doesn't make God "wicked".
It makes Him HOLY.
God made it so that they couldn't repent of their wickedness.
No, He did no such thing.
They made themselves slaves of sin, by choosing to sin.
I think that God is holy, holy, holy. I understand is anger against the wicked. The bible also teaches us that God is love and wants us to be his disciples of love.
Please show me any verse of Scripture that reads, "God wants".
John 13: 34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Key word... "COMMANDMENT".
That doesn't mean, "we get to choose".
Jesus put these 2 commandments above the 10 commandments.
Matthew 22: 36-40 “Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?” 37 He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the greatest and first commandment. 39 And a second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
I doubt you even know WHY God gave us the commandments.
I suggest you read Rom. 3:19-20, and Gal. 3:24-25.
... I couldn't care less what you "think".
I only care what God has revealed in His word, the Bible.
God knew loneliness because he was alone prior to creation therefore he could anticipate Adam would become lonely and created Eve.
I didn't say anything against God's sovereinity.
Nothing but anti-Biblical garbage.
Maybe Paul was right when he didn't permit a woman to teach.