Interesting.

Stephen Kingston’s last blog post..Happy Endings Spoof Foundation

He’s the creator, the owner, and He is justice. There is no law higher than him, he is the law.

Let me illustrate. In baseball, there are a certain set of rules– rules for strikes, walks, safe, out, foul, fair, errors, etc. Yet, even though these are the rules, the umpire is the final rule– the final authority. If the umpire says that a foul ball was fair, it’s fair. Complaining about the call is meaningless, because the umpire is the rule. Even if they were to institute replay, the umpire would still be the one to change the call.

This is an imperfect illustration of God. He is justice– unlike the umpire who is calling plays imperfectly– God is never unjust. Does that help?

Again, back to the whole concept of ownership. God can create anything He wants for whatever purpose He wants. The Bible states that He creates some “vessels” to honor and others to dishonor. We only have a problem with it because of our perspective– our pride, arrogance, and the view that somehow we are more just than God. God can’t be considered criminally negligent because 1) it’s not possible, because He is the final authority and 2) you’d have to prove that it’s not in the Creator’s rights to do whatever He wants with His creation.

Look at it from a different angle… If we were talking about other planets and some were created and destroyed, is He not just in creating and destroying them? Even if He knew from the beginning that they would be created or destroyed? How about the flowers in the fields– God created plants and knew that we would have to consume them… is He unjust for creating things to be consumed?

The problem comes into play when we think about the fact that souls are more permanent than animals, plants and planets, and yet even then, God has the rights as Creator to do whatever He wants with His creation.

Another illustration: Many times when you have children around the house you’ll hear the expression, “but it’s not fair!” and they’re right. Life is not fair. We have no expectation of fairness, regardless how hard parents will try to be fair. We can hope to expect justice, but not fairness. Same thing when it comes to Creation– God is just, and yet He gives some people talents in one place, some people He allows to attain greatness, others monetary gain, and some are born with birth defects. We are tempted to scream “You’re not fair, God!”, but we are reminded that all are created to serve a purpose He has.

The disciples asked Jesus why the man that was born blind from birth– and Jesus answered that it wasn’t because of his sin or his parent’s sin, but that God could receive the glory.

Ultimately, it all boils down to this concept. We’re all created as we are so that He can receive glory. Pharoah’s heart was hardened and he rejected God so that God could receive glory. We need to look at things from His perspective.