Call it what you like; divine moral justice is nearly impossible to put into words.
We can characterize it. That’s what parabolic language is for and Jesus used parables as the primary means to teaching. People whose spirits are alive and aware will recognize the truth within characterizations, but their minds will struggle some. People whose spirits are dead have no clue.
We can abstract it. We can discern an application that fits the context. It works a whole lot better if we’ve invested ourselves in training our minds to obey the spirit. We come into this with our minds highly conditioned in every direction except the right one. So we spend most of our time simply teaching our minds what is not justice. That’s a big part of what is meant by “tearing down strongholds” — impediments within our souls built on the shifting sands of human awareness without the spirit.
This is the religion I teach here. You fill in the intellectual content from your own interaction with the moral truth woven into our universe. It is not possible to offer a unified body of propositional truth because such things are inherently derived, not received. What is received from above can only lodge in your spirit, which is far above your intellect and not directly connected. The assumption that your derived “truth” is somehow universal is the worst damned nonsense that ever arose from human thought to imprison the truth.
It’s not as there are no strong statements that can be applied to everyone, but Scripture of itself and within its own context is more than enough of that. To extrapolate is blasphemous, if you attempt to apply that extrapolation beyond your own personal domain. Our single biggest problem in churchianity is people refusing to observe the limits on their intellect. Keeping your reason on the throne is kicking God out because human reason is fallen, too. Elevating reason to a position of infallibility is just an excuse for self-idolatry.
The pinnacle of revelation was a human being who embodied the model of moral purity. We would naturally debate and even dispute how to apply what we learn from Him, but if we neglect the basic understanding that you cannot run Him through a grinder to spit out mere intellectual principles, then we cannot pretend to follow Him. He was not a collection of ideas and ideals, but a person who was a close as any human could get to the Divine Person.
Truth is a Person.
