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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: Dear Brother Ed, you write, "So are you saying, there is going to be no one at the judgement seat? "Arminians understand the price of sin has been paid at the cross, but you have [to] believe in Christ to receive that payment. We believe a just God made that choice available to all. Calvinist believe God only presents that choice to some. While I will not dare to be presumptuous toward God in matters I do not fully understand that appears to be unjust. EdB" Re-read my post concerning the judgment seat. Again, Brother Ed, you affirm that Christ has paid for the sins of all. So, again you affirm that Christ and the non-believer both pay for the same sins, first Christ on the cross and then the non-believer on judgment day. Further, how can my Arminian brother say that God "made that choice available to all" when we know that some have never heard the Gospel? How does my Arminian brother support from Scripture that God has "made that choice available to all" when we know that there are still unreached people dying today who have never heard the Gospel? By means of God-sent preachers (to include us when we witness) God presents the choice to some. Those whom he quickens and enables by His Spirit will choose to believe. (Rom 10:14) Finally, God is not unjust when he does not extend mercy to sinners. He can only be unjust when he does not give sin its wages. TO BE JUST IS TO GIVE WHAT IS DESERVED. To extend or withold mercy is not a justice issue, because all sins are punished, either in Christ on the cross for the believer or in the non-believing sinner himself on judgment day. The sins of the believers only were punished in Christ and it was for the sins of His people alone that He died. Matt 1:21 "She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins." Is 53:6 All of us like sheep have gone astray, Each of us has turned to his own way; But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him. (Before you jump on the "all" think about the "us.") Again, Rom 3:26 "for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be JUST and the justifier of THE ONE WHO HAS FAITH IN JESUS." This does not appear unjust to me. The sinner AND Christ paying for the same sins does. Peace, Lionstrong |