‘The fact is, Scripture is filled with divine actions that don’t fit our human standards of logic or morality. But they don’t need to, because we are the clay and He is the potter. We need to stop trying to domesticate God or confine Him to tidy categories and compartments that reflect our human sentiments rather than His inexplicable ways.
We serve a God whose ways are incomprehensible, whose thoughts are not our thoughts. Ultimately, thoughts of God should lead to joy because those same thoughts designed the cross – the place where righteousness and wrath kiss.
Would you have thought to rescue sinful people from their sins by sending your Son to take on human flesh? Would you have thought to enter creation through the womb of a young Jewish girl and be born in a feeding trough? Would you have thought to allow your created beings to torture your Son, lacerate his flesh with whips, and then drive nails through His hands and feet? Parents, imagine it.
I am almost sure I would not have done that if I were God.
Aren’t you glad I’m not God?
It’s incredibly arrogant to pick which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God’s plan of redemption, even though it doesn’t make sense to us. Neither should we erase God’s revealed plan of punishment because it doesn’t sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God’s actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.’
Francis Chan & Preston Sprinkle, Erasing Hell, p.137.
