Justice is restorative to the victims, and punitive to the offender. All of us, before salvation are offenders. That is the part people skip. They think they are pretty good, and don’t deserve hell, like the Bible says they do. We deserve death and hell, every single one of us. We are all sinners. Those that God made, even knowing they would reject Him naturally will suppress the truth in unrighteousness. (Romans 1:18-22) So if we all deserve hell, it is a miracle that God saves any. God didn’t need to do anything. He chose to create and demonstrate His loving kindness. How can a fallen creature look upon its Creator, who perfectly defines all things by His very existence, and have the impudence to judge Him as evil? It is ludicrous. Creations have no rights to their Creator. He has all rights to what He has made. God demonstrates His justice, by pouring out the rightfully deserved wrath, on the unrepentant sinners, in Hell for all eternity. This brings glory to God, because in punishing sin, He restores the victims. The victims are the people who have repented and put their faith in the grace of Jesus and His atoning work on the cross. The offense caused by sin would mar God if He did not punish it. The believers would be victims of this, if God did not punish the unbelievers. They would be victims, because God would be unjust and unloving to not punish the unbelievers in Hell for all eternity. So the wrath poured out on the offender restores that what would be done to the believer, by demonstrating that God is, in fact just, and will not let sin go unpunished. The fact that He is just, and restores those He has no need or obligation to restore, shows that He is also loving and merciful. God didn’t have to make anyone. He was perfect without creating a thing, but He did create, because He desired to do so. He is omniscient. So in His all knowledge, if He creates people, knowing which ones will not repent, and knowing which ones will repent, and even still creating them all demonstrates that some vessels were made for wrath, and others honorable purposes. Read Romans 9 for crying out loud people. For those of you that claim to be Christian, READ YOUR BIBLE!!! If He chose to do this then it is good because He defines good. He is the creator. We are the creatures. Saying He is evil because He judges and punishes creatures He made, knowing they would be in rebellion demonstrates how little you actually know about your Bible and God. You have believed the horrible Barney theology of, I love you, you love me nonsense. Open theists and Universalists shouldn’t even call themselves Christian. They are heretics.
So God is glorified in damnation by demonstrating His wrath for the purpose of His justice and He is glorified in salvation by demonstrating His grace for the purpose of His loving kindness. This grace is not a violation of justice because He came down from majesty incarnate as Jesus to suffer the cross. He had the wrath that you and I deserve poured out on Him on our behalf. He paid the penalty and satisfied justice so that you could be saved if you would repent and put your faith in Him. If you can’t then He didn’t die for you and you are not saved. You are not one of the elect and will be in hell for all eternity.
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