Is the God of Christianity a just God?
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YES
Basically what you're asking has been asked throughout history.
Job 8:3 NIV
Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
The Saints defend God
Throughout the ages of biblical times, the saints have declared with trumpets the Justice of God.
Job 34:12 NIV
It is unthinkable that God would do wrong, that the Almighty would pervert justice.
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
2 Thessalonians 1:6
God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you
Isaiah 30:18
Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
Isaiah 5:16
But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will be proved holy by his righteous acts.
Why isn't God doing anything about the evil?
You may then ask, why is there evil in this world? Why are there murders and why are there evil people?
God declares that He will judge every deed.
Ecclesiastes 3:17
I said to myself, “God will bring into judgment both the righteous and the wicked, for there will be a time for every activity, a time to judge every deed.”
Revelation 20:13
The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done.
How can God forgive us, if He is Just?
God has declared all people wicked, so how can He forgive anybody?
Romans 3:23 (NIV)
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God
Well.. isn't that what this entire story is about.
Romans 3:25-26 (NIV)
25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
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Who is this God?
The LORD is known by the judgment He executes (Psalms 9:16)
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. (Exodus 20:5-6)
From this attributes, we see that God is very just.
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Well, the answer is obvious, in logical term.
We Christians believe that God created everything.
So God is the ultimate reference and authority for everything. He created the world with his standards. He is justice himself.
In this perspective, God not being just is illogical, because it would require an higher authority under which God could be found "wrong".
God could only be felt "injust" by creatures standards, which are automatically inferior to God justice (and thus flawed).
A comparison would be when you (rightfully) punish a child and he says "that's not just". People who dealt with children know what I mean ;)
Addition : a false representation of God could be found injust. The true justice is said to be seeded in every man's soul by God. Against this higher, truer sense of justice coming from God himself, a false representation of God could be rightfully found injust. This should stimulate a real truth seeker to "clean" his representation of God.
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Matt 5:48
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
If God is perfect, that means in every way possible. In justice, in mercy, in love, in reward, in punishment, etc...
He is the ultimate example in everything! So how could he be an unjust god, and yet maintain his perfection in all things?
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From the New Testament:
God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you
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He's most definitely just. See the following:
Deut 32:4
He is the Rock; his deeds are perfect. Everything he does is just and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!
Revelation 19:2
His judgments are true and just. He has punished the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the murder of his servants.
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