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NASB | Deuteronomy 32:4 "The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Deuteronomy 32:4 "The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness without iniquity (injustice), Just and upright is He. |
Subject: Is God really just? |
Bible Note: How does this fit with the teachings of Jesus? Are we as Christians told to be servants of believers only, or servants? Was the Samaritan wrong for helping someone who was not a Samaritan? Would he not have been better off passing the other by and only offering his gift to another Samaritan? Why should we go into all nations and not just to those nations who are more open to recieve the gift? Why should we try to rerach and baptize all nations instead of only a few select ones more open to the gift? Are we to love each other as Jesus loved us? Or are we to only love those we choose to love and its ok to hate and condemn the others as you say Jesus did by not offering any chance of avoiding eternal torment in the river of fire? When somone knocks and asks for a loaf of bread, should we give him a stone and only give the loaf to some of those whom we choose to give our gift? I'm sorry, maybe its my limited mind, but I cannot comprehend Calling God just, in any way, if He randomly chooses the majority of people and refuses them His grace and intern condemns them to hell. If Jesus paid the price, justice is served. If God offers his forgivness to everyone justice is served even if some refuse it. If God chose me over someone else to recieve His forgivness and chose that person to suffer in Hell, then that is not justice, that is not love, and it is not mercy. It is favoritism (a sin) to me and the ultimate cruelty (a sin) to the other person because it was not that person, but God who refused to love and forgive that sinner. If Jesus paid the price for us and offered it to everyone who would believe, He is loving and that love is perfect. If He paid the price that would cover everyone, but went down the list saying "You I choose to save, but you can burn in Hell" then He is cruel and what love He has is not perfect, but highly selective. That is just not the loving, perfect, loving God I know and worship. That is a hateful, mean tyrant. How can you be loving and merciful and choose that the majority of your creation will suffer torment for ever and ever? I cannot believe that. I hope this thread will be short, because honestly, I am closed minded on this. I just had to voice my extreme confusion on even the thought of this concept. I will not believe in a God that would be this cruel. |