God's Theory of Relativity

Introduction

In Parashat Noach, a point that is often missed by preachers and scholars is the relativity that is expressed. Here is the source of that relativity that says to me so much about how God works and how God looks at us and how God evaluates our worth as His children in relationship to the world that we live in and not in absolute terms and values.

Does the word of God say that Noah was a perfect man? No, we all know that Noah was not a perfect man, but what makes him perfect in the sight of God is that in relationship to his wicked and evil generation, Noah was a just (righteous, upright) man!

God's Theory of Relativity

That relativity in which God looks and evaluates us and judges us is of such great importance and it is so often totally ignored in the way our Christian brothers evaluate and judge and condemn each other. In fact God takes His judgement of every generation and every person in a very relative way, and the punishment and the expiation of our sins is also evaluated and punished and required of us by God relatively and never absolutely.

Here are some texts to demonstrate and prove that what I am saying is true throughout the whole bible and throughout all of human history. If this was not so there would be a need for a universal flood to wipe out humanity every several hundred years! God’s mercy and justice are mixed and influence each other, that is why God does not judge us all with the same measure! He judges us individually, each according to his ability, and to his responsibility:

The relativity that the Torah shows here of how the Lord looks at us is something that is of first-class importance. It is important because we see from Christian and from Jewish religious history the harshness and immovable judgment in reverse of what the Torah is revealing to us.

We tend to look down and step on our brothers who are less successful in this world. The western church preaches that prosperity in the worldly parameter is a measure of the “favor and blessing of the Lord!”

The poor and struggling brothers and sisters and the unfortunate are less blessed by the Lord.

The Lord in the Torah reveals, for all that He does, not to discriminate or show partiality toward a person who is less fortunate in the arena of worldly success.

I personally know families of disciples of Yeshua, born-again saints in God’s kingdom, that have children with serious health challenges and permanent disabilities. At first it seems like the light of their lives was turned off. Later, they say that having a child with permanent disabilities has changed their lives for the better and has given them a special dimension of a kind of love that can’t be understood when having normal and healthy children.

In the whole Bible there is not one character, from the greatest to the least, that is sinless or perfect in his behavior. Some of the greatest heroes of our Bible are people with serious imperfections and sins. Some, like King David, sinned big-time and broke nine of the Ten Commandments, and God loved him and honored him to be the forefather of the Messiah.

We consider Noah a saint, a hero, and the father of the surviving humanity. Noah stayed a hero in the Bible even after he sinned after the flood. Moses didn’t stop being a hero and being used by God after he sinned and didn’t circumcise his sons.

The Lesson For Us

Let us learn from the Lord God of Israel to be less judgmental of our brothers and sisters when there are problems with them, and sin. We must take into account who is the person and what are the circumstances of their sins and problems and seek ways to help them to see themselves in a realistic light and conduct themselves honorably and always seek to do better and improve with the encouragement of our brothers and sisters in the community.

Because the Lord grades us on the bell curve and He demands more from those who have more and are more successful in this world. Yes, the Lord is the giver of the same atonement for all, and forgives the sins of the poor just as much and as graciously by charging a handful of grain as to what a rich person should offer with a bull or a sheep.

This is precisely the principle that is pointed out by our Lord Yeshua in Luke 12:48,

I really hope that I and my brothers in the faith will learn this principle and practice this divine principle. Because the reverse of these principles is also true and we see it also in the scriptures.

The one who gives a little will also receive a little. The one who gives much will also receive much.

This is a law of nature, it is a law that in the churches of our brothers around the world is hammered hard and repeated often, but only in regard to one area, that is in giving money to the church. However, this principle works not only on giving money to the church. The principle is universal and the Lord God of Israel practices it even in regard to atonement in the Torah.

This universality of relativity, globally and universally, and even in the vast expanse of space, is a good and true principle that Alfred Einstein discovered through science in the 20th Century, but Moses and Israel already had known it from the Torah itself.

The Lord will bless those who learn to bless and show grace to God’s children - the whole human race! I thank God for His revelation of Himself and of His Son Yeshua in such a way that even I can get to know Him better from His Word!

I pray that you do too!