Opus 2024-199: A Different Understanding of Justice

Those of us who are believing Christians would agree, I think, one of God’s attributes is that He is just.

Even those who are often accused of being works righteousness oriented would agree that there is no way that we can earn our salvation.  We are all sinners, the Bible says so.  There should be nothing to argue about there.  And being sinners, it is impossible for us to pay for her own sin by working them off.  Thus God has to pay for that sin.

He has done that through Jesus.  This fits in with the teaching of the Old Testament and also with the culture of the day.

The concept of paying for sin is common historically.  One of the names, for it was weregilt.  Sin, or, in secular terms, a crime, hurt someone.  That someone had a right to demand your life, or to demand that you pay a certain amount of money.  Often the two options were considered equal.  This is true even in things like treason.  So we had a common idea that sin could be paid for by people, but that’s not in the Bible.  Biblically in some cases restitution can be made, but that does not deal with the sin issue.

Our culture has rejected the idea of sin.  They have rejected the idea of original sin or the fall of man.  Modern culture says that human beings are inherently good and decent and are only corrupted by the society they live in.  That sets up a cycle of nonsense for me.  If people are good and only corrupted by society and society is made up of people then how does it become corrupted.  Somewhere in the circle there needs to be a dissonant note introduced.  Christians put that in the Garden of Eden.  I am not sure where the secular world gets it.

Another extension of this is knotted in with the current idea that we need to save the planet from human beings.  We are a virus that is destroying the pristine beauty of the world.  Since most of these people are pagan evolutionists they have a problem they don’t see.  If man is a product of evolution, then he is a legitimate product of the primeval ooze.  Mankind cannot be evil or bad.  If we destroy the planet then it is a matter of survival of the fittest and the planet was not fit.

Logic can be vicious but only if you are paying attention.

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