“EQUALITY OF GOD”

Sunday, February 14, 2010

“EQUALITY OF GOD”
By rev. dr. larry Delano coleman

Does God have favorites? Or, is God equal in his dispensations?

Ecclesiastes 9:2 says:

All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Put another way, God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10:34 states, “Then Peter said, "Now I understand that God doesn't play favorites.”

Deuteronomy 10:17 is even more explicit:

"For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.”

Notwithstanding these explicit teachings, certain men persists in insisting that their conduct on earth--indeed, their mere genealogy-- entitles them to divine favor denied to others. Jesus disabuses these “already saved” folks of such narcissistic notions:

Matthew 5: 44 “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. “

Ezekiel 18:4 addresses this precise question. “Behold all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.”

Elsewhere in Ezekiel 18, we find:

25 Yet ye say, The way of the LORD is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal? 26 When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. 27 Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?”

God is the perfection of equality, its absolute epitome.

Favorites? Unthinkable? Unfathomable. Incompatible with the existence of God. Indeed, nullified by the existence of God.

“To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal?" asks the Holy One.” Isaiah. 40:25.

Although we are on the earth rotating at approximately 1,000 miles per hour, we don’t feel it. Although the earth is orbiting around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour, we don’t feel that either. http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/970401c.html

Our solar system, in turn, is orbiting around the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, at 568,000 miles per hour, which itself is orbiting at untold speeds. And our planet is 28,000 light years from the center of our galaxy. http://www.worldculturepictorial.com/blog/content/solar-system-moving-100000-mph-faster-thought-15-speed-increase-translates-doubling-mass-mil

Of course, light itself is traveling at 186,000 miles per second, or 299,792,458 metres per second,[1][2] often approximated as 300,000 kilometres per second.
. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light

Our God can’t help, but be equal! His immutable laws establish equality.