For if the world could have been saved by bookkeeping, it would have been saved by Moses, not Jesus. The law was just fine. And God gave it a good thousand years or so to see if anyone could pass a test like that. But when nobody did ~- when it became perfectly clear that there was no one who was righteous, not even one" (Rom. 3:10; Ps. 14:1-3), that "both Jews and Gentiles alike were all under the power of sin" (Rom. 3:9). God gave up on salvation by the books. He cancelled everybody's records in the death of Jesus and rewarded us all, equally and fully ~ with a new creation in the resurrection of the dead.
The only way to solve the problem of evil is for God to do what in fact he did: to take it out of the world by taking it into himself - down into the forgettery of Jesus' dead human mind - and to close the books on it forever. That way, the kingdom of heaven is for everybody; hell is reserved only for the idiots who insist on keeping nonexistent records in their heads."
Robert Farrar Capon,,Kingdom, grace, judgment: paradox, outrage, and vindication in the parables, p. 396.
(Thanks, Pastor Mietzner on Facebook)
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