God is not partial, says Apostle Peter in the book of the Acts of the Apostles. It is underlined also
by The Apostle Paul, that God is really not partial. Both meant that whosoever is righteous among the
nations as a just and benevolent person, God will judge that person without any partiality. Ethnicity,
religion will be regardless, God will examine the thoughts of the hearts and the intention of the deeds of the people.
God is not partial, also because he can not be partial. God is an undividable entity on that level that
there are no parts or portions in him, but full and endless unity. God is also completely almighty, all-
knowing, eternal, omnipresent and also having all superior and supernatural qualities we are not even
able to understand, however one thing looks like certain according to the holy scriptures, that God is
one and indivisible, who never changes.
As it is written in the book of Malachy: "For I, the LORD, I do not change”, or in the Psalm 102 "But You are the same, And Your years will not come to an end, or in the letter of James, chapter one: "Every
good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with
whom there is no variation or shifting shadow." Thus God is an unchanging entity. There is no change
ever in his structure, essence, character, attributes, qualities or even in his actions.
He is the cause of the existence of the universe, he is the very source of the life in all creatures on
Earth, in the solar system, in the galaxy and further among the stars. He is the maintainer of the
physical and non-physical laws, and he is the provider and the sustainer of the humanity.
God is completely Almighty, however there is one thing even he can not do. Eventually it is only one
thing but a major one.
Once upon a time there was a great Philosopher, lived in the so called Dutch Golden Age, in the
seventeenths century. By civil profession he was an optical lens grinder, and because of the glass
powder in his lungs he died as early as at the age of 44. His name was Baruch Spinoza, and as a
thinker he became an icon not only for Amsterdam, having a statue there facing the Amstel River, but
often he was called the Prince of all Philosophers, ever.
In his main work, titled the Ethics, he says that because of the very essence of God and his major
attribute is the very existence, therefore God must exist, it is impossible and unthinkable that God does
not exists. Over-simplifyingly saying, It is agins to the very nature of God not to exist.
Thus God exists, and he can not not exist. It is at least philosophically proven. Even God would want to
not exist, he would be not able to achieve that. This is all the same when we say, that God can not be
non-God, Got can not be his opposite, God can not be evil. And as the Bible states, God can not
change, which ultimately means God can not be partial.
And not only that. It also means that his decrees and decisions never change.
Rumor has it, I mean, it looks like in the book of the prophet Jonah, that God changed his decree,
namely Prophet Jonah announced the message of God in Niniveh, a world class city at that time, that
just “forty more days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”
Niniveh was a wicked capitol of a wicked empire, where the Assyrian king boasted that the Pharaohs of
Egypt built their pyramids from stones, but he built the Assyrian pyramids from human skulls.
Thus it must have been a great surprise for the prophet Jonah or for anybody else that the King in the
city of Niniveh declared fasting and repentance, saying that if we all repent, maybe God will change his
mind. The even greater surprise is also written in the Book of Jonah: that “ When God saw what they
did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he
had threatened.”
It was such a disappointment for Prophet Jonah that he even protested against the divine decision.However it might be a superficial view to believe the God could have changed his mind at that time or
anytime. Because God did not change his mind or the essence of his being, not in Niniveh or ever.
In Nineveh the wrath of Heaven was ready to go against the non-repenting kingdom. However the
mercy of Heaven was also ready to be given to the repenting Kingdom.
It is not a confusion. It is justice and mercy in a balance. Just as the Apostle Paul says in his letter to
the Romans.: ... God ... ” will repay according to each one’s deeds: “ to those who by patiently doing
good seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; while for those who are self-
seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be wrath and fury. There will be anguish
and distress for everyone who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, but glory and honor and
peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. For God shows no partiality. “
The Apostle Paul talked about God’s impartiality regarding the judgment day.
When gentiles, Cornelius, the Roman centurion and his company visited The Apostle Peter, he talked
about God’s impartiality regarding who is receiving the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is given not because of birth, gender, status, ethnicity, but to the humble in their heart.
The Gospel of Matthew says regarding entering Heaven that " 40 Two men will be in the field; one will
be taken and the other left. 41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the
other left. "
Continuing this line we may say that two people will be speaking in the United Nations; one will be
taken and the other left. Two people will be voting for the same political party; one will be taken and the
other left.
Two people will be fighting in a war on the same side and one will be taken and the other left.
Two people will be praying in a cathedral; and one will be taken and the other left.
Two people were born in the same house, and one will be taken and the other left.
Two horses will be pulling the same sleigh; one will be taken and the other left.
Two dogs will be barking the same moon; one will be taken and the other left.
Two cherry trees will be standing under the same sun; and one will be taken and the other left.
Two rivers will be flowing into the same sea; and one will be taken and the other left.
Two cliffs will be withstanding the same storm; and one will be taken and the other left.
Situations are always different but one thing is supposed to be certain that not a single good deed will
be unanswered by Heaven with a reward, and not a single bad action will stay ultimately unpunished.
God reads the hearts, He is always fair, he is always just, he is always merciful to the repenting, he
never changes, he is never partial, he maintains his law, he sustains the universe, he feeds the people
and the creatures all, he gives his sun and the rain to all.
We are all here on Mother Earth to repent and make amendments often three-four generations wide.
Occasionally it looks like that good people suffer and the wicked people succeed. However sometimes
we have to suffer a bit here on Earth as a part of making our amendments, in order to be taken to
Heaven later. It is very Biblical to say that if the wicked, despite their general wickedness, for the little
good they have ever done, if they took all the rewards on Earth, there will be no reward left for them in
Heaven, as the Lord said:
“Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.” And he added: “24 Again I tell you, it is easier for
a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.”
And when we see that it looks like often that the good not only suffer but they often perish from Earth,
we have to know what is written in the book of prophet Isaiah 57: “The righteous perish, and no one
takes it to heart;the devout are taken away,and no one understands that the righteous are taken away
to be spared from evil.
Those who walk uprightly enter into peace;.” Let us all understand that our aim
is Heaven, the Kingdom of the Blessed King, as we pray in the name of Jesus by the Spirit, AMEN.
