The Fairness Paradox

It seems to me that every human has ingrained in them some sort of level, ruler, of fairness. Every single human on this planet (or maybe just at least America, I dunno) strives for, or regards highly fairness. If something is not fair, well that's just plain wrong. Maybe even evil. Exhibit A: any child that can talk. "That's not fair!!!" This lasts until teenage years at least. Anyway, so I'm thinking about how strange that is. Why the heck are we so ingrained with fairness? Why is that the standard? I was also thinking about how even seems to usually be the best of most things. Not too much of this, not too much of that. Balance. That coincides very nicely with fairness. Kinda on the same path. But then also following along on my thought process I got to thinking about paradoxes (which I am fascinated with) and how they are everywhere, especially wherever God's hand is evident. Let's look at a few cases. First off, God becomes Human. Whoa. Big one. Then He decides to go ahead and dwell IN humans. Yeah, that's kinda weird and not quite right by normal thought. Then there's men and women who are supposed to live together and become one as husband and wife, and make a family. If you know a man and you know a woman, then I think you know what I'm talking about. They're pretty opposite. Also there's the whole saved by grace but also you have some sort of free will. God is sovereign but He wants you to be involved some how. Predestination some how meshes with free will. You have to die in order to live. Anyway, so all of this is kind of going through my brain, and I'm thinking about how we love fairness and it's so ingrained in us (of course unless it hurts us, and then we conveniently ignore fairness) and how I can see that fairness is pretty tied into justice. We all know God is a God of justice, so it almost seems like fairness is a skewed perspective, an almost but not quite there form of justice. An image of God, but from the imperfect human side. Our own try at being a god if you will. But here's where the fairness paradox comes in. And I have to thank Relient K for this one. We so much want fairness, but God will not allow it. He will not allow the fair thing to happen. He must impose His grace, thus being very unfair and a little bit biased. I mean come on, we go about gallivanting and imposing our will and wants, showing, proving that we are gods, spitting in His face and just walking away, yet He will not allow the fair thing to happen. For some reason (and I think some part of it's God's love for the paradox) He comes in and won't let happen to us what deserves to happen, and forgives us. All the while maintaining His pure Justice and inflicting punishment for our crimes. Yet not on us. So not fair.