Clean and Dirty Work

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Where was I? Ah, Dirty Work. God's decisions apparently also involve a lot of 'dirty work.' I am sure you know what I mean by that: death and dying; pain; suffering. On the other hand, there is a lot of good clean work flowing from the decisions at the top: love, joy, beauty, truth...

So you could justifiably conclude that although the decisions of God do indeed involve 'dirty work,' those decisions are justified by all the 'clean work' which necessarily results. And I would have to agree with you. The same might also be true at the presidential level. Lots of people die as a result of a presidential decision, but on the other hand lots of people are benefited. Good and Evil are intertwined. Always have been, always will be.

But is that really a law of God? I think not. That is a law of Nature. In the next post we will examine the kind of dirty work which we can attribute only to God.