It’s really simple folks: Unless you first study to understand God’s moral character, as revealed, you cannot pretend to know what is just or unjust. Every other standard is from Satan. That’s what we teach here.
Further, you cannot process any part of God’s revelation in your intellect. It’s designed for the heart. For those who live in the Western confusion of the terminology in the Bible, that’s the same as saying you must operate from a living and active conviction that can overrule mere human logic. God will not speak to your brain, only your heart; He speaks through a driving sense of conviction. You cannot know God any other way.
Finally, then you stand in the position to understand the general moral guideline that we never judge anyone according to what we might imagine they deserve. Only God knows that in the first place. Rather, we judge on the basis of what we must do to please Him. We cannot allow anger to vote on the disposition of anyone who falls into our hands. Rather, we must have already walked through the Valley of Death in our own souls and know what it is that God requires of us. Whenever someone intrudes into that calling and mission, we react not on any other basis but the mission.
The mythology of “justice” being a matter of punishment and what someone might “owe” society is not in the Bible; it’s from a heathen Western background. There is no “society” in the first place; that is a further complicating perversion in this whole question. Too many Westerners want others to bow down to their personal sense of victim-hood, which translates into a demand that someone else must buy the guilt and shame. “I have earned the right to humiliate you!” That’s blasphemous, because it belongs to God alone and His revelation forbids us going there. The question is under whose earthly dominion that violator falls, and no part of Western Civilization understands that question, either.
If we do not get a grip on what God revealed about all these things, we cannot even pray appropriately, much less act according to divine justice.
Amen and Amen
Agreed. This is an important post.
“The mythology of “justice” being a matter of punishment and what someone might “owe” society is not in the Bible; it’s from a heathen Western background.”
“Crimes against society,” aren’t. I think we can thank the lawyer industry for this.