5:3,4
Back in 1:18 God had called on the people to come and reason together with Him. Everyone could agree that things were in a mess, but whose fault was it? Was it God’s fault? This is at once a ridiculous suggestion, even a presumptuous one, yet one that is held by many people. Actually it is usually self-defeating, or used as a reductio ad absurdum argument. Ie if there was a God He would not have allowed such a mess to occur, there is such a mess, therefore there is no God. The flaw in the argument is the assumption that He would not have allowed such a mess to occur. God gave man responsibility, so that implies the possibility of “such a mess” occuring. There is also a flaw in “there is such a mess”. There is indeed “such a mess”, but that does not necessarily mean that this is the final destination, and the Bible points to an infinitely better future. And the prophecy of Isaiah is a prime example of that, and also reveals something of how such a future can possibly happen.
If it is not God’s fault, the other possibility is that it is our fault, or in the particular case of Isaiah, Israel’s fault. God asks them if there is anything else He could have done? He gave them a good land, He gave them the Law, He tended the vineyard. Yet when He came to look for fruit all He found was evil.
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