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Monday 12 March 2018

Can God do whatever He wants? | Genocide in the Bible series (Part 8)



If this were true, there would be no meaning in saying that God is just and righteous in how he treats us.  It wouldn't allow us to predict anything whatsoever about what he would do.  Yet Abraham—our father in faith—pleads for Sodom and Gomorrah by asking: "Far be it from you to do such a thing--to kill the righteous with the wicked, treating the righteous and the wicked alike. Far be it from you! Will not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Gen. 18:25).  God does not respond by saying "Whatever I do is just by definition".  Rather, he grants Abraham's requests, and goes beyond them to ensure that, in this case, the innocent are not punished alongside the guilty.  The fact that God is just implies that there are some things which he won't do, because they are unfair. To quote the wellknown scholar and debater Dr.James White “Sovereign is who God is, not what God does”.

God has the authority to do anything, precisely because, since HE is perfectly good, HE never abuses this authority, but only does what is just and right.

(... To Be Continued in Part 9)

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