I asked Moriah and Rebekah to write an essay about fairness after we were given a good illustration of how people define "fairness". Here is the essay: 

              All people sin, even young children.  The following incident illustrates this fact.

            Ethan was riding in the car when Dad stopped and bought oatmeal cookies. Everyone got two apiece, except Ethan.  Dad miscounted as he threw them to the back of the van.  Ethan displayed a great tantrum after realizing he was overlooked.

            Dad questioned him and discovered not only did Ethan want two cookies but that, in his mind, he would have been happy if he had received two cookies and the others went without. However, since he was the one with less, he saw the situation as unfair.  Without realizing, Ethan had portrayed a socialist, and very human, mindset.

            Socialism agrees with Ethan.  If Ethan had received one cookie and everyone else got two, then Ethan had a right to be upset.  If Ethan had received two and his brothers and sisters only one then Ethan would be happy, since he was the one with more.

            Communism carried out this type of "fairness" on a much larger scale.  According to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, “Communism is an ideology that seeks to establish a classless, stateless social organization based on common ownership of the means of production.”

The brainchild of communism, Karl Marx, was born into a Jewish family as the third child of seven. In his teen years, he absorbed the views of the German modernists who denounced the deity of Jesus Christ. Marx readily accepted their radical views and formed some of his own.  He believed history was, “a class struggle between the wealthy and the poor and private property is the source of the conflict.”

Men want to be fair. God’s fairness is more rightly called Justice.  Justice differs from fairness in this manner: Justice is the perfect consequence for the behaviors of men.  Fairness only seeks to balance the consequence among many men.  Fairness is the bellcurve of true justice.  

God is just.  He has set up the laws of the universe.  If a ball is thrown into the air, it will fall back to the earth.  Gravity operates under natural law.  The ball’s fall is just.  It is fair because we expect the ball to fall.  We don’t question it – it just is. 

Sin brings death.  This is justice.  All those who sin with the law will die with the law.  The law is just and demands a consequence. God has satisfied this just law and the demand for death by taking the consequence for our sin on the cross. This is not fair…But, it does satisfy the demands of justice.

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