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 JUSTICE

If there is no God, justice is an empty concept; good and evil are merely constructs with no basis in reality and no practical application since without God, there is no basis for determining one from the other. 

When someone says that something is unjust, they must have some practical, existing basis to determine what justice looks like. If that sense of "what it is" is grounded merely in their personal opinion or in something they heard in a college classroom without linking it to some immovable and substantive truth, then, anyone can come up with reasons to say your sense of justice is injustice because of how they feel. It's all emptiness and chasing the wind.

BUT...if God Who He has declared He is and has recorded His character and Person by speaking His own Word to be recorded so we are not crawling in the dark looking for answers in ourselves, then there is a "ground" for justice. God is the One Who establishes and defines immutably the existential reality of good and evil. Mankind may have a sense of the difference between good and evil (thank you Adam & Eve), but without God, humanity has never had the wisdom to deal with them. 

True justice comes from God; it is revealed in a vital relationship with Him by His grace and the gift that faith is, to believe all that He has done for humanity in and through Jesus Christ, the Word of God Incarnate. 

Justice is not the product of denigrating one group of people for any reason. Justice is not the fruit of hatred toward another who disagrees with you and will not validate how you have determined to define who you believe yourself to be or how you will live without reference to truth or reason.

It is very sad to see more are, having rejected God as God, now actively suppressing the truth by the wickedness they proclaim is just and right. True just is unknown to them, even though there is an echo from Eden that cuts their consciences still.

Romans 1:18 "The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness."

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