HUMANLY speaking: If the severity of God's "JUSTICE" isn't a true and ever present certainty, then the beauty of God's "GRACE" can't be an ever true and meaningful reality. DIVINELY speaking: JUSTICE and GRACE are eternal and irreducible divine attributes - THE celestial polestar points on an equally balanced axis. To marginalize the function of one is to compromise the nature of the other....

Arragned To Compliment

Ultimately... When It Comes To The Incomprehensible
Economy Of God And His Mysterious Providence
There Is Not One Thing That Is Arranged
To Be Only Subordinate To Another -
Subordination Is Merely Situational
They Can Only, Ultimately, Be Complimentary

When Elements Of The Created Order Exist
Relationally Out-of-Balance With Each Other
Those Relationships Then Become Adversarial
They Compete Rather Than Compliment
The Other Believing Perceptually, It Is More Necessary
a.k.a. "Better" Than The Other...
That Is Why The Essence Of The Fall Is
"Dis-Integration"

rsg 12/09/2008