Chapter 2. Predestination and the Sovereignty of God

 Let us assume that all men are guilty of sin in the sight of God. From that mass of guilty humanity, God sovereignly decides to give mercy to some of them. What do the rest get? They get justice. The saved get mercy  and the unsaved get justice. Nobody gets injustice.
Mercy is not justice. But neither is it injustice. Look at the following graphic:
JUSTICE/NON–JUSTICE : MERCY/INJUSTICE 
There is justice and there is non–justice. Non–justice includes everything outside  of the 
category of justice. In the category of non–justice we find two sub–concepts, injustice and 
mercy. Mercy is a good form of non–justice while injustice is a bad form of non–justice. In the plan of salvation God does nothing bad. He never commits an injustice. Some people get justice, which is what they deserve, while other people get mercy. 
God is free. I am free. God is more free than I am. If my freedom runs up against God's freedom, I lose. His freedom restricts mine; my freedom does not restrict his. There is an analogy in the human family. I have free will. My children  have free wills. When our wills clash I have the authority to overrule their wills. Their wills are to be subordinate to my will; my will is not subordinate to theirs. Of course at the human level of the analogy we are not speaking in absolute terms.
All contradictions are mysterious. Not all mysteries are contradictions. Christianity has plenty of room for mysteries. It has no room for contradic tions. 
Mysteries may be true. Contradictions can never be true, neither here in our minds, nor there in God's mind.