First, what makes good news, good? News that is described as good inherently means that it is describing a situation that is 'better than' the current situation. Let us then, first, look at the current situation...

Now this might sound odd but the problem that humanity faces is not primarily sin, but it's that God is good (Psalm 34:8). If God wasn't good, then sin wouldn't be an issue. But because God is good and Holy, Holy, Holy (Isaiah 6:3) sin and sinners are wicked in His sight and cannot be in His presence (Psalm 5:4-5).

"As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one... For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." Romans 3:10, 23

What we, as sinners, have earned for our sins against God and each other is eternal death, that is, eternal separation from God (Romans 6:23). Every sinner will stand before Jesus Christ on the day of judgement (2 Corinthians 5:10).

So, what can be done about this situation? Well, what could be done has been done. Before creation God purposed the solution to this Divine Dilemma in Jesus' Incarnation. And 2,000 years ago, God entered into His own creation, putting on flesh, adding humanity to His deity in the person of Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God (Isaiah 9:6).

"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." 2 Corinthians 5:21

Jesus Christ came and lived the sinless life that we could not. He died the sinner's death in the sinners' place, yet without sinning Himself or becoming a sinner. Jesus defeated death and the grave for us!!! This is the Gospel! This is the Good News!

Jesus paid the sin debt, in full, and gives us His righteousness when we believe upon Him in repentance and faith.

"The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel." Mark 1:15

Repent means to turn in faith toward God and away from your sins, trusting in Jesus Christ alone for your salvation. Repentance toward God means that you seek Him while He may be found (Isaiah 55:6), asking Him for forgiveness of your sins (Matthew 6:12). Pray as the publican in Luke 18:13; “God be merciful to me a sinner.”

So now what? 2 Corinthians 5:17 states; “Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new". When God saves a person, they have been “born again” spiritually (John 3:3).

Here's the truth! The Divine Dilemma never was a dilemma in the mind of God. Because at the end of it all, God's eternal plan has always been to be both the just judge and the justifier of those who believe upon the Lord Jesus Christ.

"24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;26 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.." Romans 3:24-26