Part 40

It is the height of folly for man to reason about the severity of divine judgment, or the apparent lack of proportion between the sin and the punishment. All such reasoning is false and impious. What was it that brought in all the misery, the sorrow, the desolation, the sickness, pain, and death--all the untold horrors of the last six thousand years? What was the source of it all? Just the one little act--as man would call it--of eating a bit of fruit? But this little act was that terrible thing called sin--yea, rebellion--against God! And what was needed to atone for this? How was it to be met? What stands over against it as the only adequate expression of the judgment of a holy God?--What? The burning in the valley of Achor? Nay. The everlasting burnings of hell? Nay; something far deeper and more solemn still. What? The cross of the Son of God! The awful mystery of the death of Christ!--that terrible cry, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" Let men remember this, and cease to reason.