It is only natural as people made in God's image, that we wonder how the mind of God works, that we question what we don't understand. After asserting that God's mercy is absolutely necessary for salvation and that it does not therefore depend upon human desire or effort, the Apostle Paul responds to the anticipated objection that God has taken freewill out of the equation.
Rather than answering the question directly, Paul takes a step back and speaks about the relationship between God and humanity. God, as creator, has the right to both show mercy where it is undeserved (as it always is) and to execute judgment upon the unrighteous when/where it serves his larger redemptive purposes.
In the end, the wonder is not that some remained estranged from God and therefore damned, but that many have been redeemed by God's love and mercy.
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