Scripture Reading: Genesis 5:28-7:5 King James Version (KJV)Ģ8 And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29 And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed. Therefore the claims of this justice must be paid in full, either by ourselves or by another. God requires that his justice be satisfied. According to God’s righteous judgment we deserve punishment both now and in eternity: how then can we escape this punishment and return to God’s favor?Ī. His justice demands that sin, committed against his supreme majesty, be punished with the supreme penalty-eternal punishment of body and soul. God is certainly merciful, but he is also just. God will punish them by a just judgment both now and in eternity, having declared: “Cursed is everyone who does not observe and obey all the things written in the book of the law.” Q&A 11Ī. He is terribly angry with the sin we are born with as well as our actual sins. Will God permit such disobedience and rebellion to go unpunished?Ī.
Man, however, at the instigation of the devil, in willful disobedience, robbed himself and all his descendants of these gifts. No, God created man with the ability to keep the law.
But doesn’t God do man an injustice by requiring in his law what man is unable to do?Ī.