Christianity is not about “fairness” or “justice.”
Just the opposite.
It isn’t fair that Adam’s sin pitched us into a sinful reality.
It isn’t fair that because of his sin, his remote descendants, born thousands of years later, are liable to disease, suffering, and death.
It isn’t fair that Adam’s sin is transmitted to his descendants in the form of a fallen nature that has an inborn desire to sin, a bent to sinning. It is not fair but it is a fact.
Q: You know what else is not “fair”?
A: How we are saved.
None of us is saved through his own merit. We can never earn it or deserve it. But Christ suffered and died for our sins so that we can be saved, through His merit alone, and none of our own:
But He was pierced for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on Him,
and by His wounds we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray,
we have turned everyone to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on Him
the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:4-6."
But He was pierced for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on Him,
and by His wounds we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray,
we have turned everyone to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on Him
the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:4-6."
David Read
