Three Gospel Inferences (Rom. 3:27-31)
Book Illustration of the Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax-Collector The fundamental, and therefore the most important, reality in the universe is God. God is the reality upon which every other thing exists. Atoms exists because God exists. The laws of physics operate because there is a God of physics. There is right and wrong because there is a Judge of all the earth. There is beauty because God is the ground of all that is truly pleasing, the ground of all that is good. There is love because God is love. To know God is eternal life, and to be included in the fellowship of the Holy Trinity is the destiny for the eternal wellbeing and joy and God’s chosen people. On the other hand, to be cut off from God is to be cut off from the ground of all order, holiness, justice, beauty, love, and joy. It results in chaos. Hell will be the place in the age to come where this chaos will be fully manifest: a place of fathomless darkness and unr...
