What should we believe about God? Should we take him at his word that he is Holy? Should we believe he is supreme goodness? Or should we weigh the texts claimed to have been authored by him? Does he want to be judge, jury, and executioner, destroying the disobedient in hell? Is it anyone's guess until we are made eyewitnesses to Heaven by the all-seeing eye?
God repeatedly asks us in the Bible to be Holy because he is Holy. The numerous promises God makes in scripture hint he is a providential God. One would expect a Holy God king forever to have a realm where Justice flourishes. In the Bible, God expresses the perfect law of liberty is the one to be as judged by. Be harmless; the very law itself, in short form, is even mentioned. Even the just penalty of an eye for an eye to the last farthing, nothing more and nothing less, is inferrable. Is God Supreme Goodness?
The books of scripture expose a legal edifice. Laws are given. Penalties are prescribed. Death in hell, at the last judgment, is the final fate of those condemned. The text makes it clear that some are saved, and some are condemned. The letter of the law gives death. Yet the Gospel says the truth will set you free, be as they to be judged by the law of liberty, for the Spirit ministers life.
Until we are eyewitnesses of Heaven, we may guess either way and risk being wrong. Until God overtly repeals the laws prohibiting harmless liberties, we can fear damnation if we do them anyway. Until then, we can only hope God is a Holy and Just eternal king instead of a lawgiving tyrant looking forward to a reign of terror based on eternal destruction in hell for disobedience.
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