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The scriptures reveal that the nature of God is holy. I sought to explain what that means, but I felt Arthur Pink is his book "The Attributes of God" does the term justice...
"He is so because the sum of all moral excellency is found in Him. He is absolute Purity, unsullied even by the shadow of sin. ‘God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all’ (1 John 1:5). Holiness is the very excellency of the divine nature: the great God is ‘glorious in holiness’ (Exo 15:11). Therefore do we read, ‘Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity’ (Hab 1:13). As God’s power is the opposite of the native weakness of the creature, as His wisdom is in complete contrast from the least defect of understanding or folly, so His holiness is the very antithesis of all moral blemish or defilement."
Within God is the highest expression of mercy, grace, compassion, immeasurable and infinite love, and goodness. With that said God is also holy, just and divine because of this he must judge and punish sin. If an earthly judge has obligation to enforce the law think of how much more God as holy and ultimate judge must judge without partiality. There may be an earthly judge that desires to show pardon, but, because he must uphold the law in the spirit of fairness he has to judge. God is no different.
It is, because man has sinned that God must judge every deed and every action that has transgressed his law. Sin is transgression from the law, or a breaking or violation of the law. Each and everyone of us has a record with felonies, misdemeanors, and criminal acts awaiting prosecution, because we all have sinned. There is no escape from this pending prosecution and/or judgement apart from Christ. What Christ did was stand in the courtroom and take upon himself the judgment and punishment that would otherwise be enforced upon you. He paid the penalty for your sin at the cross.
Gods initial intention for man was to express love, intimacy, and fellowship in the garden of Eden as seen in the beginning, but sin brought separation from God and, because God is the ultimate and only source of life that separation also brought death. The holiness of God cannot dwell within the immediate presence of sin which is why God removed his presence, in turn removing the life that acted as an infinite life source to Adam and Eve, and they in turned became finite as sin and death took place.
God sent Christ through the ministry of reconciliation to reconcile man back to God to the intended fellowship that was meant in the garden to restore what was in the beginning. Either we will pay the penalty for our sin or Christ will. The world must know that there is no hope apart from Christ. They must know that God will judge them according to his law and sentence them accordingly. If we accept Christ as our lord and savior from this then the penalty that we would have otherwise paid was already enacted on Christ on the cross. If we have no sin we can enjoy the fellowship that he intended for us as seen in the garden of Eden.
Without Christ there is no hope and God although he desires to show mercy and pardon he simply cannot, because he is a divine being, holy and, because of this a just judge that must uphold the law sentence the guilty without partiality much like an earthly judge must.
"He is so because the sum of all moral excellency is found in Him. He is absolute Purity, unsullied even by the shadow of sin. ‘God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all’ (1 John 1:5). Holiness is the very excellency of the divine nature: the great God is ‘glorious in holiness’ (Exo 15:11). Therefore do we read, ‘Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity’ (Hab 1:13). As God’s power is the opposite of the native weakness of the creature, as His wisdom is in complete contrast from the least defect of understanding or folly, so His holiness is the very antithesis of all moral blemish or defilement."
Within God is the highest expression of mercy, grace, compassion, immeasurable and infinite love, and goodness. With that said God is also holy, just and divine because of this he must judge and punish sin. If an earthly judge has obligation to enforce the law think of how much more God as holy and ultimate judge must judge without partiality. There may be an earthly judge that desires to show pardon, but, because he must uphold the law in the spirit of fairness he has to judge. God is no different.
It is, because man has sinned that God must judge every deed and every action that has transgressed his law. Sin is transgression from the law, or a breaking or violation of the law. Each and everyone of us has a record with felonies, misdemeanors, and criminal acts awaiting prosecution, because we all have sinned. There is no escape from this pending prosecution and/or judgement apart from Christ. What Christ did was stand in the courtroom and take upon himself the judgment and punishment that would otherwise be enforced upon you. He paid the penalty for your sin at the cross.
Gods initial intention for man was to express love, intimacy, and fellowship in the garden of Eden as seen in the beginning, but sin brought separation from God and, because God is the ultimate and only source of life that separation also brought death. The holiness of God cannot dwell within the immediate presence of sin which is why God removed his presence, in turn removing the life that acted as an infinite life source to Adam and Eve, and they in turned became finite as sin and death took place.
God sent Christ through the ministry of reconciliation to reconcile man back to God to the intended fellowship that was meant in the garden to restore what was in the beginning. Either we will pay the penalty for our sin or Christ will. The world must know that there is no hope apart from Christ. They must know that God will judge them according to his law and sentence them accordingly. If we accept Christ as our lord and savior from this then the penalty that we would have otherwise paid was already enacted on Christ on the cross. If we have no sin we can enjoy the fellowship that he intended for us as seen in the garden of Eden.
Without Christ there is no hope and God although he desires to show mercy and pardon he simply cannot, because he is a divine being, holy and, because of this a just judge that must uphold the law sentence the guilty without partiality much like an earthly judge must.
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