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- Q&A 9 But doesn't God do man an injustice by requiring in his law
what man is unable to do?
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- No, God created man with the ability to keep the law.1
- Man, however, tempted by the devil,2
- in reckless disobedience,3
- robbed himselves and all his descendants of these gifts.4
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- 1 Gen. 1:31; Eph. 4:24
- 2 Gen. 3:13; John 8:44
- 3 Gen. 3:6
- 4 Rom. 5:12, 18, 19
Q&A 10 Will God permit such disobedience and rebellion to go unpunished?
- Certainly not.
- He is terribly angry
- about the sin we are born with
- as well as the sins we personally commit.
- As a just judge
- he punishes them now and in eternity.1
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- He has declared:
- "Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do
- everything written in the Book of the Law.2
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- 1 Ex. 34:7; Ps. 5:4-6; Nah. 1:2; Rom. 1:18; Eph. 5:6; Heb.
9:27
- 2 Gal. 3:10; Deut. 27:26
Q&A 11 But isn't God also merciful?
- God is certainly merciful,1
- but he is also just.2
- His justice demands
- that sin, committed against his supreme majesty,
- be punished with the supreme penalty--
- eternal punishment of body and soul.3
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- 1 Ex. 34:6-7; Ps. 103:8-9
- 2 Ex. 34:7; Deut. 7:9-11; Ps. 5:4-6; Heb. 10:30-31
- 3 Matt. 25:35-46
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