Main news for 28 March 2022

The Book of Psalms often speaks of arrogant wicked people whom God repays according to their deserts, in contrast with the righteous whom He supports and preserves. At first glance everything is normal and natural: some receive a deserved reward, others a deserved punishment. But can one see in God only the One who hands out rewards and punishments according to a regulation established once and for all? If that were so, who could count on salvation? And if everything is different, then what is the meaning of such statements? It would seem that abandoning a "theology of rewards and punishments" significantly complicates the matter. But is this so? What if we begin from God's desire that every sinner turn and remain alive, to which Ezekiel testifies? Then punishments for the wicked appear even less understandable. Meanwhile, everything falls into place if we remember that God can forgive any sin, provided the sinner turns to Him, repents of what he has done, and asks forgiveness for it. God can forgive any sin to a repentant sinner. But the wicked person differs most of all from the righteous precisely in that he does not ask forgiveness and regrets nothing. What then? Then, as can be seen, only one thing remains: to leave such a person to his fate. A fate in which God will not be. But there will be all the consequences of His absence. At the limit, consequences that turn life into a nightmare and the world into hell.