Justice is good when done justly
It is certainly sad to see what a misunderstanding of God’s will can do to His reputation. Jesus warned, “The time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.”
This is not a new problem, and it is still ongoing. But to destroy someone’s name through misconstruing his words doesn’t change that person’s character, only his perceived character. And it happens to people all the time, purposely.
So it shouldn’t surprise us to see the same thing happen to God by His enemy. There was nothing He did wrong, even in the Old Testament, in the way of justice.
When the man in charge of the German concentration camps was finally apprehended recently and condemned to death, was that condemnation unjust? Anyone who has seen the piles of dead bodies will agree that it was just. When a mass murderer is executed we breathe a sigh of relief.
Wikipedia says of Jeffrey Dahmer, “His murders were particularly gruesome, involving rape, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism.” Who will argue that he shouldn’t die for his misdeeds?
The actions directed by the Lord toward nations and tribes who we can suspect, and archeology is finding, were doing equally grievous acts were just actions. But if I’ve never come to know God as a God who would take all that justice upon His own head and know the infinitely worse destruction of hell, then I will not accept that those nations which were destroyed deserved their sentence of destruction.
Its only in the light of the cross that we can see that what happened in the Old Testament was just. And if the whole Old Testament were studied before making judgment on it, the reader would find that often the God who sent judgment on nations finally sent it on Israel because they had become equally violent and outrageously wicked as those nations which had been previously destroyed for the same wickedness.
Justice is not violence, its good. Its a form of mercy. But if I’m prejudiced toward a person who stands for justice, it doesn’t matter what you say, I’ll hate that person and disavow anything he says to be right.
Before throwing out the Bible, read the whole thing. Its the only honest thing to do.
This is not a new problem, and it is still ongoing. But to destroy someone’s name through misconstruing his words doesn’t change that person’s character, only his perceived character. And it happens to people all the time, purposely.
So it shouldn’t surprise us to see the same thing happen to God by His enemy. There was nothing He did wrong, even in the Old Testament, in the way of justice.
When the man in charge of the German concentration camps was finally apprehended recently and condemned to death, was that condemnation unjust? Anyone who has seen the piles of dead bodies will agree that it was just. When a mass murderer is executed we breathe a sigh of relief.
Wikipedia says of Jeffrey Dahmer, “His murders were particularly gruesome, involving rape, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism.” Who will argue that he shouldn’t die for his misdeeds?
The actions directed by the Lord toward nations and tribes who we can suspect, and archeology is finding, were doing equally grievous acts were just actions. But if I’ve never come to know God as a God who would take all that justice upon His own head and know the infinitely worse destruction of hell, then I will not accept that those nations which were destroyed deserved their sentence of destruction.
Its only in the light of the cross that we can see that what happened in the Old Testament was just. And if the whole Old Testament were studied before making judgment on it, the reader would find that often the God who sent judgment on nations finally sent it on Israel because they had become equally violent and outrageously wicked as those nations which had been previously destroyed for the same wickedness.
Justice is not violence, its good. Its a form of mercy. But if I’m prejudiced toward a person who stands for justice, it doesn’t matter what you say, I’ll hate that person and disavow anything he says to be right.
Before throwing out the Bible, read the whole thing. Its the only honest thing to do.
posted by David | 6:41 AM
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