Not exact matches
Unless a healing balm like that found in the restorative drama of Christianity is
brought to the persons and societies that have suffered these wounds, then rights, the rule of law, and any hope for
just punishment may well be doomed.
In a sense then, the wicked
bring God's
punishment on themselves, because He must respond in judgement to be
just.
True,
just punishment may
bring about other good effects.
If there is one thing we learn from Isaiah 54 about the flood, it is that although it appears as if God sent the flood as
punishment, it actually came as a result of humanities departure from the protective hand of God, and because the destroyer had set out to
bring destruction upon the people of the earth as the
just consequence for their great sin.
And it may
just suit the government to keep the threat of its own, hostile reforms to the Lords as a «sword of Damocles», to be
brought out as a «
punishment», for instance if the Lords proves awkward over Brexit.
In fact, it seems as if
just about everyone I know knows someone who has (or had) attention problems serious enough to
bring isolation, medication, or
punishment in school.
For PC owners, the port of Criminal Girls: Invite Only
brings Nippon Ichi Software's rehabilitation - themed role - playing game to a wider audience, who might
just enjoy the playful
punishment mini-games.