Judging God

Some time ago I visited Plymouth Plantation. A place where the people who are working (the Separtists) "live" in the year 1621. They speak the accent of Old English and know the history (for them it is current history) very well. More importantly, they know their religious beliefs.

While I was visiting with one of the Pilgrims another visitor asked him, "Why do you believe in a God who allowed half of your people to die in that first winter?" His response was most clear and to the point, and I will never forget it. "Who are we to judge God?"

Most people think of themselves as some kind of morally neutral agent who may look at the evidence for God's existence or some other Biblical claim and remain objective in the judgment of God. Over many years of evangelizing, I have come to this conclusion, there is no morally neutral being, including God Himself.

What I mean is this. God is the only truly objective being with the sense He knows all things. He judges all things not by some imaginary neutrality though, but by His own righteousness and holiness. We only know what is right and wrong simply because God is God and there is no other.

For us then to judge God during events like Katrina is to say to God, "I am morally neutral and objective, so let's see if this Katrina devastation could have been allowed or decreed by a Creator, and then we will see if that God is good or right." This is absurd on its face. For we now have the pots and clay saying to the Potter, "Why have you made me like this?"

Man is sinful, therefore man is biased against God from the beginning and does everything he can to surpress the truth. To assume otherwise is to...(refer back to assume).

In application, we as mere creatures would do well to humble ourselves and recognize that God is the Creator, and we are His creatures. In doing this, perhaps we will recognize that God has spoken, and He has explained Himself to us through Christ. He also has told about who and what man is. Who would know man better than his Creator? Therefore, God is the One who judges, not man.