Are You the god of God?

[Davies]

""That criminals are incompetent judges of vindictive justice." They are parties, and it is their interest there should be no such attribute as justice in the Deity. It is natural for them to flatter themselves that their crimes are small; that their Judge will suffer them to escape with impunity, or with a gentle punishment and that if he should do otherwise be would be unmerciful, unjust, and cruel. The excess of self-love suggests to them a thousand excuses and extenuations of their guilt, and flatters them with a thousand favourable presumptions. An impenitent criminal is always an ungenerous, mean-spirited, selfish creature, and has nothing of that noble disinterested self-denial and impartiality which would generously condemn himself and approve of that sentence by which he dies. A little acquaintance with the conduct of mankind will soon make us sensible of their partiality and wrong judgments in matters where self is concerned; and particularly how unfit they are to form an estimate of justice when themselves are to stand as criminals at its bar. Now this is the case of all mankind in the affair now under consideration. They are criminals at the bar of divine justice; they are the parties to be tried; they are under the dominion of the selfish spirit; it is natural to them to palliate their own crimes, and to form flattering expectations from the clemency of their Judge. And are they fit persons to prescribe to their Judge how he should deal with them, or what measure of punishment he ought to inflict upon them? Sinner! dare you usurp this high province? Dare you

"Snatch from his hand the balance and the rod,
"Rejudge his justice, be the god of God?"" - Samuel Davies

Everyone is astounded at the punishment of sin. For the unbeliever, this very sentence could be what he hangs his hat on, and says, 'The Christian religion is a fairy tale.' How about those professing Christians who avoid the subject of Hell because they haven't reconciled the doctrine with the God of love and say, 'God would not send anyone to Hell.' I'm afraid there are no gods of God. We are unfit to say what the penalty should be for our sin.

- Davies

 

[for_his_glory]

A person kills someone and gets a few years in prison while another caught in the same crime gets life, where is the justice in this as one sits in the judgement chair of the Judicial Court!

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Sin is sin as there is no sin greater than another if you are walking in disobedience which separates you from the love God. The wages of sin is death/separation from God and even though man passes judgement on you even to the physical death to the grave, God has the final judgement upon the resurrection from the grave when Christ returns so even the one who only served a few years in prison will face a greater judgement for his crime unless he turns back to the grace of God and is forgiven his sin and God remembers it no more.

 

[Davies]

for_his_glory,

I agree with you regarding our judicial system. There may be a semblance of justice, but it's flawed at best. But God's judgment is perfect, but when presented with eternal punishment, this is hard to accept. Too commonly, a person will make light of his sin to justify his attitude towards God's judgment, making light of His judgment.

"It is natural for them to flatter themselves that their crimes are small;"

I was thinking the extent of God's judgment reflects His holiness, and that's why the seriousness doesn't reside in the crime itself, but against the one whom the crime is committed against. Bearing false witness and sexual sin will land you in the same place.

- Davies