Is God just?

[hedrick]

Does it even matter whether one prospers in this life or not? The wicked are murdering their own eternal souls.

If this life is as a breath that passes away, what we reap in eternity is of far more consequence.

Yes, it does matter. Otherwise there'd be no point in asking Christians to follow Jesus in this world. It matters that people here treat each other right. And it matters that people are hardening themselves to the point where they'll be excluded from eternal life.

I understand the point you're trying to make. But the attitude that this world doesn't matter has produce problems among Christians. I doubt that Jesus would accept that injustice doesn't matter because it's only temporary.

 

[~Anastasia~]

Yes, it does matter. Otherwise there'd be no point in asking Christians to follow Jesus in this world. It matters that people here treat each other right. And it matters that people are hardening themselves to the point where they'll be excluded from eternal life.

I understand the point you're trying to make. But the attitude that this world doesn't matter has produce problems among Christians. I doubt that Jesus would accept that injustice doesn't matter because it's only temporary.

My apologies. I may have said things in a way easy to misunderstand, but in didn't mean them to be taken to that degree. If that's what others are hearing, then I thank you for pointing that out.

Certainly justice in general is important (though it doesn't always happen that way). And how we treat each other is probably THE most important thing in life, or among the most important.

I was replying to the idea that God sometimes allows the wicked to "get away with" their wickedness, apparently, and does not stop or immediately punish them. In that case - I see God's delay of punishment as not really important. The wicked may prosper on the earth, but that doesn't mean we should consider their lot a good one, since in the process they are murdering their eternal souls and are to be pitied, not envied.

I hope that makes it more plain.