Let’s just suppose that there is a God who is all Holy and Righteous;

and suppose that this God freely creates mankind and gives mankind the gift of life.

Suppose he sets His creatures in an ideal setting and gives them the freedom to participate in all the glories of the created order.  

Suppose, however, that God imposes just one restriction on them, warning, that if they violate that restriction they’ll die. Would such a God have a right to impose such a restriction?

And suppose that for no just reason, the ungrateful creature disobeys that one restriction the moment God’s back was turned.  

Suppose that instead of killing that creation he redeemed them.  

Suppose the descendants of that first transgression broadly and widely increase their hostility towards their Creator, to the point that the whole world became rebellious to God and each person ‘did what was right in their own eyes.’  

And suppose that God still determined to redeem these people and freely gave special gifts to one people (the Jews) so that through them the whole world would be blessed.

And suppose God delivered this people from poverty and enslavement to a ruthless Egyptian Pharaoh and suppose that this privileged nation, as soon as it was liberated, rose up in further rebellion against God.  

And suppose they took his law and violated it constantly.  

And suppose that God, still intent upon redemption, sent messengers and prophets to plead with his people to return to Him.  

And suppose his people killed those messengers and mocked the message.  

And suppose the people began to worship idols of stone and things fashioned of their own hand.  

And suppose these people invented  religions that were contrary to the truth of the real God and worshiped created things rather than the Creator.  

Suppose that in an ultimate act of redemption, the Creator God Himself became Incarnate in the person of His Son.  

And suppose this Son came into the world, not to condemn the world but to redeem it.

But suppose this very Son of God was rejected, slandered, mocked, tortured and murdered.   

Yet suppose that God accepted the murder of his own Son as punishment for the sins of the very persons who murdered Him.  

And suppose that God offered to His Son’s murderers total amnesty, complete forgiveness, transcendent peace that comes with the cleansing of all guilt, victory over death, eternal life and complete happiness.  

And suppose God gave these people as a free gift the promise of a future life that would be without pain, without sickness, without death, without tears;

and suppose God said to these people there is one thing that I demand, I demand that you honor my only Begotten Son and you worship and serve him alone.  

Suppose God did all that.  Would you be willing to say to him, “God that’s not fair.  You haven’t done enough.“?

- R.C. Sproul Reason to Believe