Calvinists object when we say, "for no reason at all" is the methodology of their god. It is claimed that God needs no reason, that it simply pleased Him to do, or that the reason is hidden in the mystery of His will: "We do not know what God bases His choice on..."

Even God, however, must have reason for saving some and damning others. Otherwise, He would be acting unreasonably, and thus contrary to His being. Election/predestination is always said in the Bible to result from God's foreknowledge-"the things which God hath prepared for them that love him" (1 Cor. 2.9).

He offers to reason with man about this matter: "Come now, and let us reason together" (Is. 1.18).