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To: RnMomof7
What is Fair? Fair would not have been slaughtering people just because they were on land that he wanted to give to Israel. Fair is not playing favorites like he did when he gave the birthright to Jacob.. Fair is not giving one nation a way to atone for sin and leaving the others in their polytheistic religion that are an abomination to Him. Fair is giving the higher wage to a man that worked all day in the field and not treating them all the same Fair is having mercy on all people , not just who He wants to have mercy on.

It is possible that your definition of "fair" my not coincide with God's.

We can agree that sometimes, in this world, the good suffer, and the wicked prosper. Is that "fair"? Only as God sees it, from His eternal perspective. Because in eternity the wrongs will be righted.

3,796 posted on 04/12/2004 5:47:26 PM PDT by malakhi (L'shana haba'ah b'Yerushalayim!)
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To: malakhi
It is possible that your definition of "fair" my not coincide with God's.

That M was precisely my point . God does not count "fairness" as man counts "fairness"

God feels it is exceedingly fair to select who He will to save according to His good pleasure. Just as he chose Abraham to become the nation of Israel and a special people to himself. Fair is when all mankind falls short of the glory of God (romans 3) . When there is not one that is worthy to be in the presence of our Holy God that He saves any is more than "fair".

3,950 posted on 04/13/2004 10:37:11 AM PDT by RnMomof7 (Broomstick Jockey)
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To: malakhi
It is possible that your definition of "fair" my not coincide with God's.

That M was precisely my point . God does not count "fairness" as man counts "fairness"

God feels it is exceedingly fair to select who He will to save according to His good pleasure. Just as he chose Abraham to become the nation of Israel and a special people to himself. Fair is when all mankind falls short of the glory of God (romans 3) . When there is not one that is worthy to be in the presence of our Holy God that He saves any is more than "fair".

3,951 posted on 04/13/2004 10:38:00 AM PDT by RnMomof7 (Broomstick Jockey)
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