God it?

The most decisive theological issue in scripture is this: Will God's means of salvation (Christ, the one named Jesus) fail to save God's covenant people (Israel)? If so (the failure of Jesus to do so), does this expose "injustice on God's part (Romans 9:14...What then are we to say? Is there injustice on God's part? BY NO MEANS.")

We get very deep in theological realms when we explore the fact that though the Israelites still are the covenantal people of God -- by our own belief system (what we call Christianity) -- they have missed the Christ if they do not believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior. Present Jewish disbelief in Jesus as the Christ requires some other explanation other than Jesus is not the Christ.

Paul argues in his letter to the "church" in Rome, there is irony in the fact that Gentiles who didn't strive for righteousness have attained it through faith while Israelites who did strive for righteousness through the law did not succeed in attaining that way,

Is that system then unjust? Unfair? Without mercy? I don't know. I do know that it indeed is ironic. Think of it this way: Jews who believe that they can find favor with God by doing the law, faithfully doing the law on a daily basis so that they might be DECLARED righteous must at some point or other think that God is an uncaring being who gives them more than enough things to do to be DECLARED righteous. Then when they can't do all those things perfectly each and every cotton-picking day (and they can't, they simply can't), they are unrighteous just like the ones who never try. Some system, huh?

But how about this system? They try to do all those things that will declare them to be righteous, knowing they can't but they try anyway. Then when they inevitably fail (big failure or small doesn't matter) they turn to the one whom God sent to be the instrument of righteousness. Jesus was sent to be the knife that spreads the peanut butter. We couldn't by ourselves. No one wants to spread the peanut butter, er righteousness, without the proper equipment (a knife, er, Jesus.)

God it?
I mean, got it?

What sort of system is it when mere disbelief is the method for being declared unrighteous when God knows himself that one can never do everything perfectly? It is an, by definition, unfit system, a merciless system, a system that is designed from the beginning to be declared.

Try this...a perfect God designs a system that only He can meet the requirements for. Therefore, only He can do it. He sends Himself to meet the requirements, and He does ... FOR US. However, the only way we can pay for this intervention by God, is death of the one we borrowed from, God. We can, then, only meet the requirements by paying God for his intervention, but we can't pay Him because, well, He's dead. It would take a resurrection for that to happen. He does that, resurrection I mean, so that we can pay Him for His work. He, back alive, is paid for His work on behalf of us, and all of us go along our merry ways.

In shorthand, we fail in a system designed to get us to fail. We borrow against an account designed to entice us to be unable to pay back for our mistakes. Mistake-filled, penniless, we are allowed to pay back our borrowed funds. We bring our accounts up-to-date and walk away debt-free. "We" are the gentile believers. The Jewish believers still are in debt, unable to free themselves.

Whew. At least it was easy to understand. You God it now?