Fairness, Equality, Inclusion, and Tolerance

First of all, every term in this title, as used by modern man is an abomination to God. Why? Well, I’m getting to that, and don’t worry, it won’t take long. Was it fair when God torched Sodom and Gomorrah, along with two more cities; for homosexuality, excess, idleness, and other wickedness as well? (Gen. 19:4-8; Ezek. 16:49) Many wouldn’t think so, but I think that it confirms that God is indeed “the judge of all the earth,” even as Abraham addressed him (Gen. 18:25). God also destroyed twenty four thousand of his own people in one day for committing fornication and worshiping idols (Num. 25:1-9). How fair was that? The following quotation is from God speaking to Moses: “Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD? (Exd. 4:11) How equal, or fair is that? I believe that God knows more than we do, and he does many things for reasons known only to himself. Is he wrong simply because we don’t know what he’s doing or why? I don’t think so.

After Saul, the first king of Israel, failed to keep God’s commandment to him, Samuel told him: "The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou” (I Sam. 15:28). Now that certainly doesn’t sound very much like equality, does it? But I believe that if God says someone is better than someone else, they are. When Jesus told Peter to feed his sheep, and also how Peter was going to die, Peter wanted to know what was going to happen to John. Jesus told him that it was none of his business, and if he decided to keep John alive until his second coming, that it was his own business and decision (Jn. 21:17-22). That doesn’t sound very fair or equal, does it? The apostle Paul commanded the believers in Corinth to put a man out of their fellowship because he had committed fornication with his stepmother, and had not repented (I Cor. 5:1-7,13). How’s that for inclusion and tolerance?

God commanded Israel to not marry anyone apart from the congregation of Israel, and that commandment is very much intact for new testament believers as well (Deut. 7:3,4; II Cor. 6:14-18; I Cor. 7:39). That certainly doesn’t sound very inclusive. When this commandment was grossly broken by Israel after they returned home from Babylonian captivity, Ezra commanded all of the trespassers to put away their strange wives, as well as the children that they had by them (Ezr. 10:3). That doesn’t sound to me like fairness, inclusion, or tolerance. God has already destroyed the entire population of the world [minus eight people] once for going steadfastly against his rule and will, and he has promised to do it again (Gen. 6:5:7; II Thess. 1:6-9). He also killed fifty thousand people in a day for looking in the ark of the covenant, which was against what he had commanded in the law (I Sam. 6:19).

I have a feeling that none of these things are going to sound very nice to the advocates of today’s ideologies of fairness, equality, inclusion, and tolerance. The truth of the matter is that these are just words that man has manipulated through pride to mask his own self pity and his defiance of the authority and judgments of God. Instead of believing God for who he is, and for what he’s about, man has invented mindsets to hide his own wickedness, rather than forsake it and be blessed (Eccl. 7:29; Prov. 28:13). But the question is, can man’s ideologies change God’s righteous judgment against his sins and pride? I don’t think so. The devil has felt misaligned ever since being cast out of heaven, and has done all he can against the cause of Christ. Nevertheless he is still cast out, and he is still going to the lake of fire for eternity. So also is the fate of all who hide their sins behind rebellion, self pity and ideology, and fail to come clean and humble themselves before God, and do his will. Deal with it.