The What? The Three Ghosts of Dickens' Tale bear a superficial analogy to the three uses of the phrase,

The Righteousness of God in St Paul's letter to the Romans.

The first holds up a mirror for Scrooge to see his sin and misery. Keep me, take me back.

Have we no longer.

The kindness of the second ghost bears some analogy to God's kindness tortoise in Christ.

Come in, man!

We'll be better man.

With the advent of the third spirit, Scrooge is a new person,

rejecting his old life and ways.

Good spirit, your nature intercedes for me and pities me.

Assume me that I may yet change these shadows who have shown me by an altered life.

But that's precisely where the analogy breaks down.

All three of these spirits offer a faint analogy with the gospel, but in comparison with

Dickens' tale, the gospel displays incomparable brightness.

All three ghosts bring a superficial message.

The first is superficial in the diagnosis.

Any use of the law to motivate us to change our ways

so that we can avoid the final judgment,

fails to appreciate the depth of God's righteousness

and the depth of our unrighteousness.

The whole purpose of the law, Paul says here in Romans 3, is to face us with our guilt and helplessness

to attain that very righteousness that God requires.

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