754 THE KING’S BUSINESS Christian men and women. Is not this partly responsible for the glib criticism of what God does and should, or should not do, that is so prevalent on the part of the thoughtless, even though some of them think themselves thinkers? As the discussion proceeded it was shown that it is not the mere saying so of God that determines what is right and wrong; but that we must go deeper. Back of God’s Word is God’s nature. Things in accord with God’s nature are right, and things contrary to God’s nature are wrong. What God says is governed by what God is. To suppose for a moment that which is impossible, that God were suddenly to say that lying and stealing are right, would that make them right? No! Because they are contrary to God’s very nature. Of course God could not say so, because of the very moral limita tions of His own perfect nature; in other words because He is God. Right is right because it is in harmony with God; wrong is wrong be cause it is out of harmony with God. Being in harmony with God results in happiness; being out of harmony with God results in misery, and God (let us say it reverently) can not decree it otherwise. The great purpose, then, of salvation is not merely to get men to conform to a set of rules laid down by God, but to bring men in their nature into complete harmony with the nature of God.
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DR. WILLIAM EVANS Associate Dean, Bible Institute of Los Angeles
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