GOD & SIN, LOVE & JUSTICE

Here's part of today's journal entry:

I was thinking of the conversation I had with an ardent Buddhist friend who talked of her belief that the dieties left when displeased with the wickedness they saw on the earth. Isn't that kind of: "We'll protect you if you please us, but not if you scare us away?" But wait. How does that differ from the Bible God's way of looking at sin? Don't we say God hates sin too? Father, show me, I prayed.

I needed to remember I was trying to understand with my limited mind, in finite semantics, infinite spiritual matters.

God's Absolute Purity was the basis for which everything else was compared. The backdrop, so to speak, against which anything was placed. Sin was not merely something that was bad; it was an abomination; what happened when you put like ends of a magnet together.

BUT God was Absolute Love. Again here, man's semantics had no expression to do justice to this. He was Love in such a way DESPITE that Absolute Sin in the heart of man, He would wrap us with unilateral mercy that any who would repent of that sin could become His Adopted Heir and have nothing more to do with that absolute sin which repelled Him so; rather, take on the nature of the magnetic pole of the other end forever!

Now when it came to God's way of looking at evil, I saw two almost diametrically opposed teachings regarding this, and both were just as convincing to me.

1. I looked at some human parents with wayward children spending time with the wrong group: there were drugs, questionable illegal stuff going on, drinking, all the dress, lighting, music, hours, money, language, age, shouted out: BAD NEWS. Parents did all they could to discourage the children from going there. Time after time they talked to them, scolded, reprimanded, grounded, punished, did anything they could, until one day they decided the child would just have to learn on their own. They didn't even bail the child out of jail when there was a police raid as they'd done before. They pulled their hands out of their child's life because of the wickedness yes, but because they loved the child.
2. God promises He will never leave us nor forsake us. God's holiness must not be mocked, His patience tested. Altho' these concepts seem so opposed, God claims them simultaneously. We created beings should not demand to understand the mind of our Creator; merely submit to His demands. Cannot we believe the same God Who promises to be our Everlasting Father has Infinite Hatred for Sin? In fact, He allowed His Only Son to swallow His Wrath for us on the Cross! Some people think the love and justice of God are two separate, foreign, almost opposing truths. Actually, the latter proved the former!