Quote Source – Jeff Hilles
A Biblical Christian worldview perspective – For those who don’t know God through His Son, Jesus Christ, there is a logical desire to replace God’s righteousness with human justice, fairness, equity, and equality.
Many unbelievers see God as angry, reckless, and inconsistent in His judgment of mankind. He demands to be treated as our King and has the audacity to call out our bad behavior in judgment, sending those who do not repent into an eternity of suffering. Many look at Jesus as separate from God the Father, unwilling to recognize His indignation at the behavior of mankind.
Mark 3:5 – And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored.
John 8:24 – I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.
Matthew 21:12 – And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons.
Those who believe God exists but refuse to submit, use human standards to judge God’s actions through the lens of human conditional morality, fairness, equity, and equality. What the lost so ironically miss is that for those willing to submit, God is the epitome of love and grace. He sent His only Son to die on a cross for our sins so that we would not have to pay ourselves.
1 John 4:7-11 – Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation [appeasement] for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
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