MAN THOUGH GUILTY,

IS OFFERED GOD’S MERCY

 

By A. W. Tozer

 

 

 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ

died for the ungodly.                     Romans 5:6

 

    It is vital to any understanding of ourselves and our

fellowmen that we believe what is written in the Scriptures

about human society-that it is fallen, alienated from God,

and in rebellion against His laws!

 

    There is plenty of good news in the Bible, but there is

never any flattery or back scratching, and what God has

spoken is never complimentary to men.

 

    Seen one way, the Bible is a book of doom. It condemns

all men as sinners and declares that the soul that sinneth

shall die.

 

    Always it pronounces sentence against society before

it offers mercy; and if we will not own the validity of the

sentence we cannot admit the need for mercy!

 

   The coming of Jesus Christ to the world has been so

sentimentalized that it means now something utterly alien

to the Bible teaching concerning it.  Soft human pity has

been substituted for God's mercy in the minds of millions,

a pity that has long ago degenerated into self-pity.

 

The blame for man's condition has somehow been

shifted to God; Christ's dying for the world has been

twisted into an act of penance on God's part. In the drama

of redemption, man is viewed as Miss Cinderella who has

long been oppressed and mistreated, but now through the

heroic deeds of earth's noblest Son is about to don her

radiant apparel and step forth a queen.

 

This is humanism-romantically tinted with Christianity! 

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Yours in Christ,

 

Paul N. F.