Inequality Did God Intend It?

God intended that all humans have equal opportunities to enjoy life and happiness. Of man's creation, we read: "God went on to say: 'Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.' " Upon completion of earthly creation, "God saw everything he had made and, look! it was very good." - Genesis 1:26, 31.

Can God pronounce today's sad state of inequality "very good"? Hardly, for "God is love." (1John 4:8) It is said of him that he "treats none with partiality" and that "perfect is his activity, faithfulness, with whom there is no injustice; righteous and upright is he." (Deuteronomy 10:17;32:4; compare Jo 34:19) And the apostle Paul concluded: " For a certainty I perceive that God is not partial, but in every nation the man that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him." - Acts 10:34, 35.

Since God is loving, impartial, just, upright and righteous, how could he have created humans with inherent inequality as regards their right to enjoy happiness? To allow discrimination among people and to place them in a system of inequality would be in direct contradiction to his personality. He intended that they all be "born free and equal in dignity and rights." Yet, today things are obviously not that way. Why not?

Next time: The Root Of Inequality