Santa is said to bring gifts to good little boys and girls on Christmas Eve. The gifts are for the children. All they have to do is sit and wait. Then they'll have them (if they're good.)
What though if the kids are bad little boys and girls? What if the bad kids (and grownups: kleptocrats, bureaucrats) know Santa is coming? What if the bad kids ambush Santa from the shadow of the chimney? Will the bad kids then legitimately own the good kids toys? (They will if they run the government and write the laws and monopolize the justice departments.)
God sent Jesus to offer us mercy. But we knocked him down, tortured him. Do we "own" the mercy?
Do kleptocrats have God by the short hairs? Or is God just giving us, still, all the rope we need to hang ourselves? An infinity of times.
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