There is an imperative attached to faith that requires us to fulfill a condition, prior to faith. There is unforgiveable sin. This must be dealt with. Salvation is not a lottery. Nor is God mechanical or subject to causality. God is not obliged to create us in a way that we must be saved. These are the normal assumptions, but they do not make sense, according to the nature of God. Just because you cannot figure a way out of this paradox, does not mean God never did. How can we be saved by faith, if God picked us to be saved at the beginning of Creation? How could he have picked us from before the world was formed, if we are saved by faith? Perhaps there is a piece missing from our theology?
