9.Q. But doesn't God do us an injustice by requiring in His law what we are unable to do?
A. No, God created humans with the ability to keep the law. They, however, tempted by the devil, in reckless disobedience, robbed themselves and all their descendants of these gifts.
10.Q Will God permit such disobedience and rebellion to go unpunished?
A. Certainly not. He is terribly angry about the sin we are born with as well as the sin we personally commit. As a just judge He punishes them now and in eternity. He has declared: "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law."
11. Q. But isn't God also merciful?
A. God is certainly merciful, but He is also just. His justice demands that sin, committed against His supreme majesty, be punished with the supreme penalty--eternal punishment of the body and soul.
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"Sin fights the spiritual principle that is in us. It fights to destroy our soul. Although it opposes the work of grace in us, its nature and purpose about all is to oppose God."
John Owen--Sin and Temptation
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Matthew 7:21-- "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven." (Jesus speaking)
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But divine love without divine wrath is meaningless. When we minimize God's justice, we do not exalt His mercy, we undermine it.
Kevin DeYoung--The Good News We Almost Forgot
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