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God On Trial


The audacity of man. We feeble creation put the Creator on trial. What utter folly. Our arrogance shall be our downfall. "Can a Man judge God?" (1)

The new trend is to put God on trial. It has become a sport of sorts, to scrutinize and scorn the Lord. People who claim to love peace and goodness claim that God has no right to judge any man or to punish the wicked. The acts of the Almighty in the Old Testament are cited as crimes of the Creator, as intellectual men and women make their case against the Creator. For us Christians this comes as a shock. How can mere man judge the Maker? What pride must be in people who believe they can put the Almighty on trial.

It does seem rather surprising at first, but if we look back in the Scriptures we will see this is not anything new. Jesus Christ, the Son of the Living God was put on trial by three courts: The Sanhedrin, King Herod, and The Romans under Pontius Pilate. God has already been on trial. God has already been judged by men. The sentence was death. People today who continue to put the Creator and Savior on trial are inheritors of the spirit that sat with the Sanhedrin. The Religious Leaders of the day, The Pharisees and Sadducees cross examined Christ and called for him to be crucified on a cross. The rebellious heart of man seeks to blame anything but himself. It began in Eden, when Adam responded to God by saying, "it was this women you gave me, she gave me the fruit and I ate it." Eve then proceeded to place the blame on the serpent.

The heart of man is wicked above all else. (Matthew 15:19). Inside the heart dwells the seeds of rebellion. Man wants to justify his sin and to do that he must crucify God. Those who judge the Lord do so because they hate Him. They do not want to know His mercy and love. They want to be in control, to the point that they will kill God if they can. This insolence inside was planted by the Insidious One himself, the serpent known as Satan. In Eden he placed the seed in Man's heart to rebel against God and take the Forbidden Fruit. Now he bids new generations to do more than that. He raises armies of young people to defy their Creator and accuse Him of crimes.

What utter foolishness. How can man judge God? Man is the creation, not the Creator. It would be like if we created artificially intelligent machines that could not fully understand us and those machines decided to rebel and destroy us. We would be the creators and the machines would be limited by the programming we placed in them. While man is not a machine, he has a heart, soul, mind, and spirit in addition to a body, we are as inferior in intelligence and might to God as the machines would be to us. If that analogy does not suffice, it is like a dog trying to understand us and judging us for what we do. How can a creature that is so much lower in mental ability and power rightfully and justly judge us? If the dogs had it their way, we would all be locked up in prisons for giving them baths, taking them to the Vet, and telling them no for having torn up our couch.

One can see if rationality be his or her guide, that God can no more be judged than us by other creations. However, there are those that say we should be judged by the trees, fish, and other living organisms. Yes, these allegedly peace-loving people say we deserve to be put on trial by nature for the harms we have done. This is why there are laws to protect forests, rare birds, tadpoles, and other creatures. These nature and green radicals would have us become extinct to appease the rest of creation. In actuality this is just another way of murdering God, for we are made in His Image and if we cease to exist, then a piece of God is disappears from the Earth.

The Trial against the Almighty will continue tell The Last Judgment. People will nurture the seeds of sedition in their souls and turn against the Savior (Jesus Christ). These pompous and proud persons will find that on that day they will be sentenced to everlasting judgment. There pleas and persecutions of the Lord will fall silent and be replaced by the moans and groans of torment in hell.

Do not waste the chance to be with the Rightful Judge. Pay not heed to these haters of Christ. Do not join in their protests, but instead stand up for the Creator and Savior. They may judge you too, but in the end they will meet their end. Stand firm in Christ Jesus and remember that those who judge God do so because they have hardened their hearts and joined in Satan's insurrection. Pray for such individuals, that they may see the Light before it is too late. Pray that they acknowledge their sin and stop justifying it by blaming the One (Jesus Christ) who actually nailed their sin to the cross and is willing to forgive them if they will but believe in Him.

(1) Sephora, Cecile B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments

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