Consider the Family Circus cartoon on the right (from Arcamax Comics). Have you ever found yourself negotiating with your child?
God negotiated with one of His children. The story is found in Genesis 18. God was planning to destroy the city of Sodom for – among other sins – homosexuality. But He decided to talk with Abraham about it. Abraham then began negotiating with God. “Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it?” If there were 50 righteous men in Sodom, would God spare the city?
God said, “Yes, I’ll spare the city for 50.” Then Abraham moved down to 45 righteous souls. God agreed He would spare the city for 45. Abraham presumed on God’s patience and asked about 40. God would not destroy the city for 40. Then 30. Next 20. Finally, 10. “For the sake of ten I will not destroy it.”
In chapter 19, God destroys the city of Sodom, saving only Lot and his two daughters. Lot’s wife longed for the old city and its ways and, violating the command of God, looked back and turned into a pile of salt. God saved three. He took them out and destroyed the rest.
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The reason God was willing to negotiate with Abraham is found in Genesis 18:25: “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” God was willing to forgo the punishment on the city of Sodom for the sake of ten people, because He is just.
I do not understand how God operates. I do not understand all the in’s and out’s of the moral dilemmas in this world of ours. But one thing I do know is that God is just. God is, by nature, just. He will always do the right thing. He cannot not do the right thing.
The question Paul answers, especially in the book of Romans, is not How could a loving God send people to hell? The question Paul answers, pointing to the cross, is: How could a holy God allow sinful people to heaven?
–Paul Holland
