What Must I Do?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Timmy

Do you think this is just, the way God has set things up? That we will be punished for not doing something that is impossible for us? (We or someone else in our place, as long as that someone is perfect and sinless?)

Wrong mentality. It isn't that we are being punished for NOT DOING something. You see... that's the mindset that legalism builds. Those who go to Hell are being punished for SIN. What they have done. If you murder someone, you don't go to prison because you didn't let them live. You go to prison because you broke the law and killed them. We were in Adam's loins. When Adam sinned... we were ALL alienated from God. We all therefore were disconnected from all that is holy. Thus we are sinful by nature. The very condition of being lost is rooted in sin. By one man's sin... all fell into condemnation. And today, by one man's obedience (Christ's)... all men who believe and come out of condemnation into fellowship.

And is it an admirable trait of God, to consider even the tiniest infraction of His law to be a capital crime? Does it make sense to you to say that God is soooooo good, that He demands every one of us be just as good as He is? Or else?

Yes. Think of it this way. Every court judge is a law abiding citizen (or should be). He asks nothing less of all who enter his or her courtroom. Those who enter into the court to be judged... are deemed to have broken a law. Now, what would you think of a judge who didn't punish criminals? Murderers, rapists, abusers, drug dealers, and repeat offenders in all areas... he or she just let's them walk. A judge MUST judge infranctions.

Now... let's look at assult. Let's say a man assults a guy outside of a local bar. He'll be convicted of assult if charges are pressed, a Misdoemeanor. However, let's say the same guy assults the President of the United States. Ummmm... thats a felony.

The nature of the offended determines the seriousness of the crime. God is infinitely holy. Therefore any infraction against His holiness demands infinite penalty.