Does God Kill

Maranatha · is under review Joined: 28 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

Dear Administrator

I have a problem in understanding the following statments from EGW, can you please help understand/answer the following quotes:

"The death of Christ was to be the convincing, everlasting argument that the law of God is as unchangeable as His throne. The agonies of the Garden of Gethsemane , the insult, the mockery, and abuse heaped upon God’s dear Son, the horrors and ignominy of the crucifixion, furnish sufficient and thrilling demonstration that God’s justice, when it punishes, does the work thoroughly. The fact that His own Son, the Surety for man, was not spared, is an argument that will stand to all eternity before saint and sinner, before the universe of God, to testify that He will not excuse the transgressor of His law. Every offense against God’s law, however minute, is set down in the reckoning, and when the sword of justice is taken in hand, it will do the work for impenitent transgressors that was done to the divine Sufferer. Justice will strike; for God’s hatred of sin is intense and overwhelming.´ S.D.A. Bible Commentary 3:1166.

""God does not stand toward the sinner as an executioner of the sentence against transgression; but He leaves the rejectors of His mercy to themselves, to reap that which they have sown. Every ray of light rejected, every warning despised or unheeded, every passion indulged, every transgression of the law of God, is a seed sown which yields its unfailing harvest. The Spirit of God, persistently resisted, is at last withdrawn from the sinner, and then there is left no power to control the evil passions of the soul, and no protection from the malice and enmity of Satan." GC 36

thank you for your help

Eugene Shubert · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 8:03 pm Post subject:

Maranatha,

Are you asking for a word for word explanation of each paragraph? Or are you asking about how those two paragraphs relate to each other and possibly contradict each other? A major point in the first quotation is that God will most certainly execute justice against impenitent transgressors. And the proof that God will not excuse transgressors of His law is the punishment that fell on the divine Sufferer. In the second quote, the same author is saying that ruin will come to every soul that rejects God's mercy because the Spirit of God, if persistently resisted, will be withdrawn from the sinner. There can only be so much wooing by the Holy Spirit before the heart of a stubborn sinner becomes too hardened by sin to respond. The context is what eventually happened to the Jews after their rejection of Jesus. "But the king was enraged, and he sent his armies and destroyed those murderers and set their city on fire." Matthew 22:7.

The title you gave for this thread is "Does God Kill?" How it is possible to not find the answer in the Bible? There are many verses in Scripture that affirm that God executes justice upon the wicked for the good of the universe. See Genesis 6:11-13 and Revelation 19:1-3. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" (Genesis 18:25).