The types of justice include more than the punishment commonly thought of. There are many forms of justice and words used to describe them. But before describing them I would urge you to read the following very good illustration of the correct application of justice. The Pesticides in the Garage “Imagine a genuinely loving parent […]
Traditional Legal Model – justice demands the penalty/wages of death and eternal separation from God. It is only satisfied if the guilty person pays that penalty or if someone else pays on his behalf. Justice is retributive. Biblical Healing Model – justice is doing the right thing which is to restore to a right state, […]
The Bible certainly seems to indicate that God judges us but don’t we each determine the outcome in our own cases rather than God? Let’s explore this a little. Here is a definition for judgment: Judgment (noun): the forming of an opinion, estimate, notion, or conclusion, as from circumstances presented to the mind: Our judgment […]
This article (by a guest author) nicely makes the distinction between natural and imposed law. Thank you Kent. It was Thanksgiving Day. Three months had passed since my dad’s death from cancer. We were driving to see my dad’s brother, to spend some quiet time in reflection on the year’s events. Moving along with what […]
The law definition people associate with the gospel is very much dependent on their view of the nature of the law. Traditional Legal Model – God’s laws are the rules He arbitrarily made to govern our behavior which, if transgressed, incur the imposed legal penalty of death (Rom 6:23). Biblical Healing Model – “law” is […]
“Elias [Elijah] was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.” (James 5:17) Elijah was a prominent Old Testament prophet who did great things for God. He confronted the […]
This page about how Abraham was justified is an illustration of the definition of justification provided in the glossary for this site. “Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? […]
Note: this page includes discussion of the word “justified.” Traditional Legal Model – justification is the declaration that a person is right with God in a legal sense – He is then justified, his sins being forgiven and the penalty paid. Essentially, it is a ticket to heaven. Biblical Healing Model – to cure man’s […]
Traditional Legal Model – atonement is understood to be the satisfaction of God’s justice by the payment of a legally-imposed penalty, that penalty being death – “… the wages of sin is death …” (Rom 6:23). Biblical Healing Model – the process of becoming one with God (atonement as a verb) or the state of […]
Traditional Legal Model – to satisfy the wrath of an offended God in the sense of making payment to meet the required penalty and to offset the injustice He feels over sin. Biblical Healing Model – the Bible does not use the word in relation to God. God does not need to be appeased in […]
