Why god unfair

Everyone except one person, the only Righteous One to set foot on our planet: Jesus. Jesus would receive all the benefits of His perfect life. But that isn't what happened. Instead, God chose to lay the punishment of the unrighteous on the only Righteous One. He punished the Innocent for the crimes of the wicked.

He forsook the holy One and welcomed the sinners. I don't know of a more unfair act in all of history. You see, what this parable exposes in the human heart is pride. If you identify with the complaints of the morning workers, here's what it's revealing in you:.

Let us repent for thinking more of ourselves than we ought. Let us repent of being upset by the gracious heart of our God toward others. Let us repent of looking down on the sins of others, when we ourselves are capable of the same evil apart from His grace.

Praise be to our God that He isn't fair and doesn't give us what we deserve! He isn't fair, but He is just. Sin never goes unpaid for. He always punishes evil. But in His grace, He satisfied His justice while pardoning sinners through the bloody sacrifice of a perfect sin offering: Jesus, the righteous. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.

Sign In My Account. Back Make a Request Upcoming Events. God is Unfair. Jesus makes this clear as He tells this parable: For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. So the last will be first, and the first last. Why am I the only one paying on student loans? Why are we angry? We feel entitled. We think God owes us.

We have a list of things in which God has been unfair to us. He was unfair in the personality he gave us. He was unfair in the parents we had. He was unfair in the way we grew up.

Jesus actually told a story about this in Matthew He told a story about a landowner who had a vineyard. He needed some help so he went and hired some day laborers. Then he goes back out and finds some other people looking for work at 9am. He goes back at noon, 3pm, and 5pm and continues to hire more laborers. At the end of the day the landowner is going to settle up and pay them for their work. Can we really explain? When bad things happen to good people…. The reality is, the world we live in is sick.

In this world, the Bible says, you will face troubles. It guarantees that we do, because we live in a sin-sick world. Why do our love ones get sick, and eventually die? Why would somebody hurt us even if we do good things to them?

The purpose of human history is the Kingdom of God. It may well be the case that suffering is part of the means God uses to draw people freely into His Kingdom. I give empirical support for this claim from around the globe. Indeed, I think it not at all improbable that only in a world suffused with natural and moral evil would the optimal number of people freely come to embrace God and find eternal life.

We can therefore trust Him to so order the suffering in the world that the optimal number of persons will be freely saved and find eternal life. A sovereign and loving God is not passive but knows when to intervene and when not to intervene. Given our inherent cognitive limitations, such as our finitude in time and space, we are in no position to gainsay Him. When He does not intervene to prevent horrible suffering, it is only because He has morally justifying reasons for permitting it to occur.

But God knows which prayers it is best to answer and which prayers are best declined. While we do not know if God will give us what we ask for, we should boldly ask and then accept whatever answer He gives. We trust in His providence. It is nothing in you that deserves or merits His grace. A sovereign God Himself determines how best to apportion His gifts, with the purpose of bringing as many people as possible freely into a saving relationship with Himself.

Moreover, what I said in relation to 3c and 3d above is relevant.