Final judgment will also be according to our knowledge. All people know something of God’s will through general revelation, even if they have not been instructed in the law or the gospel, and all are guilty before God for falling short of the best they knew. But ill-desert is graded according to what that best was; see Romans 2:12 and Luke 12:47-48. The principle operating here is that “where a man has been given much, much will be expected of him” (v. 48 NEB). The justice of this is obvious. In every case the Judge of all the earth will do right.
