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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: Student “Incredible” [“O” Really] IT SEEMS INCREDITABLE, AT FIRST THOUGHT, that an act can be both right and wrong. But when we see the sinfulness [wrongfulness] un-righteousness of the act, not in the deed itself, but its relation to those whom it affects, it is not difficult to see how any given action may be both good and bad. We can place almost any conceivable deed into two opposite environments and transform it from a crime into that which is commendable, and vise versa. Circumstances provide the moral clothing of human activities. The eating of fruit is often urged as an aid to health. And such is usually is. Yet this was that which introduced disease into the world! No act is sin [a mistake] “ missing the ideal” itself. Under some conditions it may be right. In others it is wrong. A kiss is usually much more just, but the kiss of Judas is among the basest of all crimes. The morality of any deed lies not in the action but in its relation to those concerned with it. Sin “ missing the mark” [a mistake] is relative, not absolute. It is no sin for the state to kill, even though it is the penalty of an individual for the same act. There is no essential difference an execution and a murder. Both define a violent death. But in one case it is done with due to authority; in the other it is a defiance of the law of the land. The great doctrine of justification consists of surrounding our sins [missing the mark, or the ideal] with a divine environment in which they are not merely covered, but actually transmuted into just deeds which will be vindicated before the bar of universal justice. How could it be otherwise? No earthly judge can vindicate a crime, or acquit a criminal, or justify what has been done unless the circumstances of the case warrant it. Such a tribunal cannot declare it righteous, for it cannot change the circumstances attending the crime. The thought of such a case comes to mind as I write. A few years ago a convict, a woman, I think as I recall in Texas, received the gift of God after conviction. We will assume that she was guilty of manslaughter. At any rate, she was sentenced to death. Anyone acquainted with the grace of God would naturally desire to do something to save such a person from the penalty. I should like to be able to justify one before men who has already been justified before God. But, how could it be done? If the dead victim could be brought back to life after his temporary death proven to be an actual benefit to him as well as all others affected by it, even an earthly Judge would revise his decision. Why condemn a man for doing what eventuated in another’s good, even if his own motive was bad and the apparent effect disastrous? No matter one man may hate another, no matter how much evil he may attempt to do to him, if he fails in his fell designs or is checkmated by another, no earthly court can convict him of the intended crime. Man is the sport of Circumstance and circumstances are the servants of God. So it is that God will deal with this deed. If the victim had, by some means, been restored to life, the charge would have to be dismissed. This is just what God will do. He will raise him from the dead, and thus conclusively cancel the charge of murder. If the case had been reviewed as an attempt to do harm, the victim himself would plead for acquittal if it actually resulted in good. The God who has the power to raise the dead is not helpless in the smaller affairs of life. This dreadful deed, deserving of death, according to every human standard, has been STRIKEN from the DOCKET of the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNIVERSE. à Romans.11:36. The Riddle of the Universe! Ephesians. 1: 1 – 14. God is operating “All” in accord with the counsel of His “will”! Not His wish. So-It-Goes! [2. Corinthians.5: 20].
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