Paul quotes God as saying in the Old Testament, Malachi 1:3, "I have loved Jacob but I have hated Esau." Paul asks, "Is there injustice on God's part? By no means, .... for the scripture says of Pharaoh, 'I have raised you up for the very purpose of showing my power in you, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth. So then he has mercy on whom he chooses and he hardens the heart of whomsoever he chooses." Rom. 9:17. Here Paul has God exploiting people for his own gratification. This is not justice. Paul goes on "You will say to me then, 'Why then does he still find fault?"' Instead of answering his own question, Paul becomes irrationally defensive of God by asking, "Who indeed are you, a human being to argue with God? Will what is moulded say to the one who moulds it 'Why have you made me like this?' Has the potter no right over the clay to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use?" Rom. 9:13-22.

Paul's argument is no argument at all, nor is it justice. We are not lumps of clay. We are all born equal human beings deserving of justice. I say to make one person for special use and another for destruction and eternal punishment is unjust- This constitutes mercy by favouritism not something deserved. Justice by convulsion is injustice. It is the old and unjust story of election or predestination which Christians still argue about.