The Closet Calvinist Podcast

Episode 6: Is Calvinism Fair? What About God’s Justice?

Episode Focus: God’s justice, fairness, mercy, grace, election
Audience: Christians wrestling with questions of fairness and divine sovereignty

One of the most emotionally charged objections to Calvinism is the question of fairness. Many people ask whether it is just for God to choose some for salvation and not others, and whether election makes God unjust.

In Episode 6 of The Closet Calvinist Podcast, we examine what Scripture actually teaches about fairness, justice, and mercy. Rather than asking whether Calvinism is fair by human standards, this episode asks a deeper biblical question: What do sinners truly deserve—and what does grace really mean?

Is Calvinism:

• Unfair and unjust?
  Or

• A biblical explanation of God’s mercy toward undeserving sinners?

• How modern ideas of “fairness” differ from biblical justice

• Why Scripture never describes salvation as something God owes

• Paul’s direct response to the fairness objection in Romans 9

• Why mercy, by definition, cannot be demanded

• The difference between justice and grace

• How God’s justice and mercy meet perfectly at the cross

• Deuteronomy 32:4 — All God’s ways are just

• Psalm 89:14 — Righteousness and justice are the foundation of God’s throne

• Romans 9:14 — “Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means!”

• Romans 3:10–12 — No one is righteous

• Romans 3:23 — All have sinned

• Romans 6:23 — The wages of sin is death

• Exodus 33:19 — God has mercy on whom He has mercy

• Romans 9:15–16 — Mercy depends on God, not human will or effort

• Ephesians 2:8–9 — Salvation by grace, not works

• Matthew 20:1–15 — The parable of the laborers in the vineyard

• Job 41:11 — Who has a claim against God?

• Isaiah 55:8–9 — God’s ways higher than human ways

• Romans 3:24–26 — God is just and the justifier

• Isaiah 53:5–6 — Christ bears the punishment for sinners

• 2 Corinthians 5:21 — Christ was made sin for us

Calvinism is unfair.

If God were fair, every sinner would receive judgment. The wonder of the gospel is not that God does not save everyone—but that He saves anyone at all.

Grace is not something God owes.
Mercy is not something sinners deserve.
Salvation is a gift—freely given and sovereignly bestowed.