God's Justice

In America, we know nothing of sovereignty, almighty power or even localized power that is so dominant that even our very existance is governed. Most of the known world has always been governed by a ruler, a king, a monarch, a dictator, a chief for all of time leading up the the declaration of independence; incidentally from a King. America was really the first nation, though there may have been others, to radically present freedom and independent sovereignty to man from the divine governor. All Christians and the Hebrews believe that the King is setup by God, so that's why it's appropriate to say divine govenor. Even Barack Obama is setup by and serves God. "The heart of the king is in the hand of God and like a river he directs it which way it should go". Prov 21:1

Then comes the matter of God's justice. In our eyes we have a trained perversion to extend, logically, our sovereignty in citizenship to sovereignty from God. The framers who believed in God would have found this conclusion to be erroneous. Because to be sovereign from God is impossible, since the only way that this could be possible is for God to have granted such a thing; in which case you are simply a lower god than He, but still never standing outside of His absolute decree of anything that should come to pass. This is important to understand, because the vary nature of our existance is disguised. Meaning, the things we see, observe, comprehend, apprehend, condescend and ascend to are simply the imagination of God. It seems real, because we've been taught that there is no reality outside of this one, except for this unapproachable, existential existance in some place called Heaven, or Hell. Yet, the scripture says that God will pull back the sky like a scroll...

There's a saying that I really like; "you've been living in a dream world neo" ~morpheus in the matrix 1.

We observe cause and effect and we believe in some sense that this is all there is. Most do. Yet, there are those who are trained in the classic sense of theology who know that even though there is some sense of cause and effect, there are also angels and powers and principalities that are all beyond what we can see through cause and effect. So then, it stands to reason that while cause and effect may be a rule of life, it's certainly not the only rule.

In the case of Balaam, the donkey's mouth was opened and it was revealed that the donkey saw more than Balaam saw and was saving his life. All Balaam saw was that the donkey would not obey.

In the case of King David taking the census that led to God's punishment of killing 70,000 Hebrews David decided to take a census. But later in the next book, Chronicles I believe, It was revealed that it was actually Satan who caused this.

In the case of Judas, it could well be said that Judas betrayed Christ, yet, the scripture reveals that Satan entered him...

God's Justice in Place:

God's justice and plan for justice is tied to human freedom by most. That is, it's said that without human freedom justice cannot stand. But the exact opposite is true. It's because there is justice that there is no human freedom. This is not a hard thing to understand; before we apply to God what is rightly his, let's consider an analogy.

• If a man owes a debt and his King throws him in jail, is he just? Yes, most would agree that if those are the laws, then this is just.
• If a King requires a debt to be paid, yet the man cannot pay and he kills him, is this just? Again, many would cringe, but if this is the law, then it is just. If it is not the law, then it is not just.
• If a King kills someone because he's been disobedient, or even simply disrespectful, is this just? You may not like this, but it is just, because he's the king. There's no higher human authority than him. So then in the relationship between king and servant, this is perfect justice.
• Now then, if a man owes a GREAT debt, but cannot pay and the King releases him from this debt, is this just? Think carefully. If you say that it is just by the same rules, 1) that the king has no higher human authority, that is just, then you conclude that HE MUST forgive ALL debts.  For justice cannot be forgiveness and payment at the same time. But if you say NO, then how can you call a king UNJUST? By what authority?

The answer is, that is not unjust, but rather non-just. The king has preferred mercy rather than justice, which is HIS perogative. Notice, in all of these examples, we were totally and flatly able to discern the process of justice without the variable of human freedom. Such as it is, freedom is not necessary for justice to remain what it is. Simply the existance of one with whom the power lay to choose exactly what is his perogative and no higher agency can abrogate such authority. This is what it is with God.