I think any one of His attributes even standing alone would make Him worthy of worship.
Worshipping a rock is not worshipping God in the “wrong” way, it is worshipping something other than God which is idolatry. Nobody is going to hell because they worship the God of the Bible using guitars and chorus sheets rather than hymnals. The Bible is not real clear that there is a “right” way to worship God.
I am not a Catholic because I disagree with them on a number of doctrinal issues. However, there are plenty of Catholics who trust in Christ, and they will be in heaven alongside their protestant brothers in Christ.
Using the fact God does not lie to demonstrate He is loving is not circular at all.
Why would you assume God was talking of only physical death? At the moment of Adam’s disobedience all mankind died a spiritual death, mankind lost the direct connection he had with God and became “dead in sin”. This sin would also eventually lead to Adam’s physical death as well. So the serpent was not telling the truth at all, we all died that day.
So when a Governor pardons one criminal, he is somehow obligated to pardon them all? You have an interesting concept of justice my friend. You are missing the point that both sets of children are getting better than they deserve.
Well only the elect are God’s adopted children, the non-believer is merely His creation. So let’s run with the cookie analogy keeping that in mind. If I knew that my adopted child would learn something from his disobedience and I would later sent my own son to pay for these sins and solidify the cookie-eater’s eventual eternal salvation and glorification I do not believe the 1 year old would complain one bit that I gave him so much grace. In fact, I can’t think of one dark time in my life that didn’t eventually lead to better times for me. All things work for the good of the believer (Romans 8). So I guess I just disagree with your assertion that God’s foreordaining events to take place makes Him the guilty party. After all, you’re going to have trouble finding a judge that holds authority over God. :-P
Now that we come to that point, could you please tell me where you get your concepts of what is and is not fair and just? How do you look at an action and determine whether it is fair or not? I think that may help us in this discussion, because I think we are defining our terms differently. Thanks!
