God's Justice part 2
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We ended our time together last time with this question: How does God spare the wicked if He is supremely and perfectly just?
We ended our time together last time with this question: How does God spare the wicked if He is supremely and perfectly just?
Reason #1: The Unity of God
Reason #1: The Unity of God
The being of God is Unitary!
The being of God is Unitary!
So what does that mean? It means that God is NOT Composed of parts!
So what does that mean? It means that God is NOT Composed of parts!
You and I are not a Unitary Being! We are composed of Spirit, Soul and Body. We have memory and forgetfulness. You have some attributes that God has given you. Some things can be taken away from you and you still can remain! There are whole sections of your brain that can be destroyed and you can still live on. This truth is because you are not Unitary! Simple stated, God Made You and I!
You and I are not a Unitary Being! We are composed of Spirit, Soul and Body. We have memory and forgetfulness. You have some attributes that God has given you. Some things can be taken away from you and you still can remain! There are whole sections of your brain that can be destroyed and you can still live on. This truth is because you are not Unitary! Simple stated, God Made You and I!
God put us together. He placed our head at the top of our torso, legs under our torso. He put in our bloodstream, our blood, our arteries, veins, nerves, ligaments, well you get the idea.......
God put us together. He placed our head at the top of our torso, legs under our torso. He put in our bloodstream, our blood, our arteries, veins, nerves, ligaments, well you get the idea.......
Something can happen and you can take away an amazing amount of a man and he is still here.....
Something can happen and you can take away an amazing amount of a man and he is still here.....
BUT! WE CAN NOT THINK OF GOD LIKE THAT, BECAUSE THE BEING OF GOD IS UNITARY! GOD IS A SPIRIT! JOHN 4: 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
BUT! WE CAN NOT THINK OF GOD LIKE THAT, BECAUSE THE BEING OF GOD IS UNITARY! GOD IS A SPIRIT! JOHN 4: 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The Jews always believed in the Unitary God.
The Jews always believed in the Unitary God.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! 5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.
* “there is one LORD” doesn’t mean merely that there is only one God; it means that God is One.
* “there is one LORD” doesn’t mean merely that there is only one God; it means that God is One.
Do you see the distinction there?
Do you see the distinction there?
We must not think of God as composed of parts working harmoniously. We must think of God as one. Because God Is One!
We must not think of God as composed of parts working harmoniously. We must think of God as one. Because God Is One!
* GOD’S ATTRIBUTES NEVER QUARREL WITH EACH OTHER!
* GOD’S ATTRIBUTES NEVER QUARREL WITH EACH OTHER!
Here is an example of the difference:
Here is an example of the difference:
Because man is not Unitary but made.created, a man can be frustrated. He may have schizophrenia, and part of him may war with his sense of mercy. A judge sits on a bench and hears a case against someone and is caught between mercy and justice and doesn’t know which to exercise.
Because man is not Unitary but made.created, a man can be frustrated. He may have schizophrenia, and part of him may war with his sense of mercy. A judge sits on a bench and hears a case against someone and is caught between mercy and justice and doesn’t know which to exercise.
God has no parts! God is all one God, and everything that God does harmonizes with everything else that God does perfectly because there are no parts to get out of joint and no attributes to face each other and fight it out. ALL OF GOD’S ATTRIBUTES ARE ONE, AND TOGETHER!
God has no parts! God is all one God, and everything that God does harmonizes with everything else that God does perfectly because there are no parts to get out of joint and no attributes to face each other and fight it out. ALL OF GOD’S ATTRIBUTES ARE ONE, AND TOGETHER!
** We think of God as presiding over a court of law in which the sinner has broken the law of justice. We imagine that justice is out there somewhere, outside of God. The sinner has sinned against that external justice, and he is put in handcuffs and brought before the bar of God. Then we think that God’s mercy wants to forgive the sinner, but this external justice says, “no, he has broken my laws. He must die.” And so we picture dramatically God sitting tearfully on His throne passing sentence of death upon a man that His mercy wants to pardon but can’t because justice won’t allow it. We might as well be pagans and think about God the way pagans do. This is not Christian theology- never was and never will be. It is erroneous to think this way, for we are making a man out of God!
** We think of God as presiding over a court of law in which the sinner has broken the law of justice. We imagine that justice is out there somewhere, outside of God. The sinner has sinned against that external justice, and he is put in handcuffs and brought before the bar of God. Then we think that God’s mercy wants to forgive the sinner, but this external justice says, “no, he has broken my laws. He must die.” And so we picture dramatically God sitting tearfully on His throne passing sentence of death upon a man that His mercy wants to pardon but can’t because justice won’t allow it. We might as well be pagans and think about God the way pagans do. This is not Christian theology- never was and never will be. It is erroneous to think this way, for we are making a man out of God!
Psalm 50:21
Psalm 50:21
The New King James Version Psalm 50
These things you have done, and I kept silent;
You thought that I was altogether like you;
But I will rebuke you,
And set them in order before your eyes.
Humans:
Humans:
Out Judges sit on the bench and their hearts want to pardon, but the law will not permit them to and they are caught in the middle. Talking to judges, some turn white knuckled and become ashen white and clutch the bench before sentencing men to die. Their mercy in not harmonizing with their sense of justice. External justice stands there as a law and says, “that man shall die,” but mercy says, “please, please spare him!”
Out Judges sit on the bench and their hearts want to pardon, but the law will not permit them to and they are caught in the middle. Talking to judges, some turn white knuckled and become ashen white and clutch the bench before sentencing men to die. Their mercy in not harmonizing with their sense of justice. External justice stands there as a law and says, “that man shall die,” but mercy says, “please, please spare him!”
God:
God:
But to think of God in this manner, is to think wrongly of God! Everything that God is and does harmonizes with everything that God is and does.
But to think of God in this manner, is to think wrongly of God! Everything that God is and does harmonizes with everything that God is and does.
Actually using the word harmonize implies harmony and that takes at least two.......but there is nothing like that in God! GOD JUST IS!
Actually using the word harmonize implies harmony and that takes at least two.......but there is nothing like that in God! GOD JUST IS!
So the first answer to our question: how can God, being perfectly just, acquit the wicked?
So the first answer to our question: how can God, being perfectly just, acquit the wicked?
springs from the being of God as Unitary. God’s justice and God’s mercy do not quarrel with each other.
springs from the being of God as Unitary. God’s justice and God’s mercy do not quarrel with each other.