Q9: But does not God do man an injustice by requiring in his law what man cannot do?

No,

for God so created man

that he was able to do it.1

But man, at the instigation of the devil,2

in deliberate disobedience3 robbed himself and all his descendants of these gifts.4

Q10: Will God allow such disobedience and apostasy to go unpunished?

Certainly not.

He is terribly angry

with our original sin as well as our actual sins.

Therefore he will punish them

by a just judgment both now and eternally,1 as he has declared:2

Cursed be everyone

who does not abide by all things

written in the Book of the Law, and do them (Gal 3:10).

Q11: But is God not also merciful?

God is indeed merciful,1

but he is also just.2

His justice requires

that sin committed against the most high majesty of God also be punished with the most severe, that is, with everlasting, punishment of body and soul.3