Grace Gate

Premise:

It is not the case that God does things just because they are right; they are right because God does them.  God does not declare certain things to be righteous arbitrarily, but those righteous things flow from God’s righteous nature.

This is an important understanding because we are confronted with this issue when we examine those things, both good and bad, which God allows.  We are often, in our finite view of sometimes evil circumstances, unable to see God’s full plan.  Mankind can be tempted to shake it’s fist at God and say, “It is not right for You to have chosen for things to be this way!”  However, not only are we able to hold fast to the truth that God’s love, wrath and holiness are perfect, but also that His righteousness is perfect.  What God does is righteous, because it is  He who does them; and the actions He does flows from His righteous nature.

The argument for theological ethics is as follows:  For their to be evil in the world, good must also exist.  If good and evil both exist, then there must be a moral law by which we objectively differentiate between good and evil.  If there is a moral law, there must be a moral law giver.  

Because God is the giver of all moral law, He is the standard of what is right.  Those moral laws that have been revealed (and are often known by basic conscience), point back to the nature of the One who gave the laws.

“The divine character is expressed by the divine will in the divine law” – J. Oliver Buswell

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Does God Saying Something Is Right Make It Right?, by Rick Wade

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