By Titto Thomas
Hmm… Have you ever seriously thought about it ? I mean can God really forgive sin ? Now sin in everyone’s vocabulary means to break the rules and the basic definition of it in the bible is also the same. To consider a modern day analogy, if I were caught for an act of stealing and then taken to a judge, a punishment is compulsory even if I led an excellent life otherwise . The integrity of the court and Judge was at stake had they nonchalantly let me go, they’d be accountable. Is this then not applicable to God? If God in His mercy had decided to forgive my sins, that would make Him a sinner, for a careless judgement is also a sin.
If you were the defendant , it would be all prim and proper for you to be forgiven but consider if you were the offended one. Can justice be not met ? When we come across any theology which says God is merciful and he forgives, is there not an issue of sweeping justice under the carpet?
How then can there be forgiveness of sins without God not breaking the rule of justice? With a question so profound as this, we are forced to inwardly reject this whole issue. ‘Comon’ you might say God has to forgive some way or the other… and for all you seekers out there I got some good news: While justice has to be dealt out righteously, we see only but one option, that the offender has to be substituted and hallelujah we see God punishing His own Son on the cross so that you and I could be acquitted in a very righteous manner.
The implications of this thought are just as profound, if a God of justice would be so faithful in carrying out His righteous decrees then how faithful He is to His word and in how much weight we can hold His declarations of being a good and faithful God.
For God is just not loving, rather He IS love and in the summation of His love for us, He sent His only Son so that without breaking His own law He made a way for us to be forgiven of our waywardness.
God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. [Romans 5:8]
