God cannot let sin go unpunished (Rom 3:25). The penalty for sin… is not a matter of God’s feelings, as if He is simply angry about being wronged…. death is the legal and just consequence for sin, ‘the curse of the law’ that justice cannot arbitrarily set aside (Gal 3:13).
Harrison Perkins | Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction, (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Academic, 2024), 176. (HT: Woods Reflection on X)
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Harrison Perkins
Harrison Perkins (PhD, Queen’s University Belfast; MDiv, Westminster Seminary California) is pastor of Oakland Hills Community Church (OPC), a member of the of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, a Senior Research Fellow at the Craig Center for the Study of the Westminster Standards, associate online instructor in church history at Westminster Theological Seminary, a visiting lecturer in systematic theology at Edinburgh Theological Seminary, and author of Reformed Covenant Theology: A Systematic Introduction. You can read more from him at Pastor Perks.
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Supposedly an eminent theologian was once asked to reconcile infant damnation with infinite mercy. The reply? “God sometimes finds it necessary to do things in His public and official capacity which He finds in His personal and private capacity to be abhorrent.”