You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed, “Why have you made me like this?” Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor? if God, wanting to show wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? (Romans 9:19-24) Paul understood that a detailed consideration of the nature of God will leave our human intellect floundering:
9:13).Īll of these truths are taught in the Bible and they only appear to contradict one another when we force the revelation of God to bow to the limitations of our human intellect. Some of the smartest and most devoted minds have struggled for centuries to grasp the balance which the Bible reveals concerning the nature of God. But how can he love justice and truth and at the same time love injustice and falsehood? Obviously, love means nothing without the balancing aspects of justice and judgment. For example, God loves justice and God loves truth. What that means, in part, is that His personality reflects the perfect balance of different elements which are in tension. Can the human mind ever reduce God's perfect character to the level of our own limited logic?.There are several issues to consider here:
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