Is God fair?

 I came across a video on this point, dealing with a claim that 'God is unfair'. The answer was couched in purely judicial terms, reducing God's love and our faith in gratitude to mere forensic transactions.

Most comments saw the hollowness of the response.

This comment more so:

This type of crass moralism is not Christianity.

The problem we have is that we (everyone) are spiritually the walking dead. We have elevated ourselves to 'god' in our own (delusional) eyes and so refuse to turn to the living and speaking creator God, Yahweh, for life.

The point of Christ's work is to open up the way for re-connection, and that is by re-birth, being 'born again' spiritually. This is done by turning from our own futile and delusional god-ness and relying on Christ to give us new life. We cannot be in God's family/kingdom (as joint heirs with Christ) without new life; the living dead would be just dead in the kingdom of light. They would be aliens there, just as fish in fresh air.

In Christ, he being God, God's domain and our domain (the created cosmos) come together, and will be finally renewed. Where at last Rorty's hope for justice and beauty in a single vision would be realized, if only he could have grasped that (his essay Trotsky and the Wild Orchids).

It's not about 'crime and punishment' but about death and life. No matter how 'good' we think we are, we are 'dead in sin'. That is in 'being cut-off from God'. That needs to be repaired, and can only be done by Christ who defeated sin on the cross and proved it by his resurrection.

 

God is fair. The evidence is starkly before us all in Nagel's Edge (read his View from Nowhere), and he (our Father in heaven) gives us the free choice of rejecting death and receiving life...or not.

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