Justice and Mercifulness of God in Anselm
In the world of traditional Christianity (or at least Anselm’s Christianity) there are ultimately three types of people in relation to how God deals with them (save or punish). According to Anselm, people can be good and be saved; they can be wicked and be punished; or they can be wicked and be saved. (Pros. Ch.9) One may pose a question as to why God, perhaps, chooses not to punish some of the good. Anselm would argue that because God is supremely good it would go against his nature to punish good people. If God punished a good person, this would be unjust and God cannot be unjust because he is the supreme of anything that is better to be than not to be. (Mono. Ch.15) Because it is better to be just than unjust, God is just and, therefore, good (supremely). This, however, is not the topic to be discussed here. Traditional Christianity holds that God forgives some wicked people and punishes other equally wicked people. Here is where we want to spend our time. This is to say, if there were two people standing before God who were equally wicked, He may choose to save one and punish the other. It is possible that He may save both or punish both, but the point is that He spares some wicked people who are every bit
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