There are some things that don’t have to be written in Scripture for a person to understand about right and wrong. This is one of those things.
Everything in our lives has a governing authority that makes rules. Our family, job, city, state, federal governments etc. Most have a punishment when we violate the rules. Some rules provide for rewards.
Everybody has to abide by the rules including the entity who makes the rules for it to be fair.
God is no different. He has made rules for our lives and has determined punishment and rewards depending on how well we follow those rules.
One of those rules allows us to have free will to make decisions, good or bad, in our lives. If He violates any rules He has made, including our free will, He is a liar and can’t be trusted about anything He says.
How could anyone believe His promise to forgive our sins and raise us from the dead if they thought He broke any of His rules.? BVB
Bobsvainbabblings - “There are some things that don’t have to be written in Scripture for a person to understand about right and wrong.”
Romans 3:10-18 - “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands;
no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one. Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips. Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood; in their paths are ruin and misery, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
1 Corinthians 1:21 - “For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him.....”
1 Corinthians 2:11 - “For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.”
Jeremiah 17:9 - “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”
Isaiah 40:13 - “Who has understood the mind of the LORD, or instructed him as his counselor?”
Men an incapable of understand the things of God, apart from the Holy Spirit. Whenever man attempts to think of God and his ways, apart from the Holy Spirit, he always fashions a god in his mind that resembles himself; his desires, his likes and dislikes, etc......
Psalm 50:21 - “These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.”
Bobsvainbabblings - “Everybody has to abide by the rules including the entity who makes the rules for it to be fair.”
Here you go again. You are not the arbiter of fair, and all authority in heaven and earth comes FROM God. He is not bound by anything or anyone. God is not under rules; God is the rule.
Was it “fair” that Jesus suffered and died for people who were utterly sinful, although He Himself never committed a single sin?
Was it “fair” that Jesus chose 12 men to follow Him closely on earth and left everyone else out?
Was it “fair” that Jesus chose 3 men to be in His inner circle and left the other 9 out?
Was it “fair” that jesus explained the parables to His disciples, without explaining them to the crowds?
God is way too big for our little minds. Rather than trying to reason your way to him, you need to humble yourself before His Word, and let Him tell you what He’s like. Let Him tell you about fairness. You should never rely on your own sense of right and wrong, and you should never, never, never rely on your own thought of God, for that is the essence of idolatry.