Why is God Unfair?

If you’ve been through life long enough to know that some bad, corrupt people prosper and some good people become poor and miserable, then you’ve already seen life’s unfairness. There is no justice – it has left this world. There is no balance, it has long passed away. And the only one who we can seem to comfortably and perhaps logically cast all the blame to is God.

This entry has been inspired by the message in our Friday nights group in CCF St Francis Square – Love out Loud. I think that the message should have had this part included so I’ll be adding my thoughts here.

God is unfair

That is what we all want to think. Because, who or what else is behind the ‘fairness’ or ‘justice’ of life? After all, if there is a God, shouldn’t it be His responsibility?

Let’s take the first case -what if there is no God? What if we just really came out of the big bang theory? Who do we blame then? Nobody. We have to accept the fact that life’s like that – no greater meaning, no higher reason, no nothing. When we live, we live for 70 good years. When we die, we perish into nothingness. Life’s like that.

But that’s obviously not the case. There is a God – and yes, he is pretty much responsible for everything.

The nature of God

In the Bible God describes Himself as love. He is also found to be patient in many cases. He also says that He is just.

“God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you” - 2 Thessalonians 1:6

Now if God’s nature is to be just – then that must mean He is also fair. Why then is there so much injustice and unfairness in our world today?

If God is just…

Remove from the nature of God patience and love and this is what you get

“The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” - 2 Peter 3:9

Everyone will perish without God’s patient and loving nature. The justice of God demands fairness. And fairness means paying the consequences for every action and deed.

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,” – Romans 3:23

We have sinned. That is the fact behind the nature of all human beings. And as payment so that justice can be achieved, this is what God’s moral law demands

“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” - Romans 6:23

Death.

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