He will prove that those who paid the ultimate price did not do so in vain because he is
the God of justice.»
For the Lord is
God of justice.
The sense of alienation and distance from God which had grown upon the pious in Israel must in proportion as they had learned to look upon Him as no mere national divinity, but as
a God of justice who would punish Israel for its sin as certainly as Edom or Moab, is declared to be no longer in place; and the typical form of Christian prayer points to the abolition of the contrast between this world and the next which thought all the history of the Jews had continually been growing wider: «As in heaven, so on earth.»
But as we have seen God of the Bible is
a God of justice and to believe in God of Bible necessarily means accepting a preference for justice over order.
The New Testament is in itself all that is necessary as a basis for Christian faith, but much light is thrown upon God's dealings with man in the story of Israel's halting and gradual discovery of the true nature of God as universal, not national; as law - abiding, not capricious; as a God of peace, not war; as
a God of justice, love and mercy rather than of wrath, and vengeance.
The present situation will not last forever for
the God of justice and mercy will bring about change.
But he was consumed by a passion for righteousness, and he spoke out on behalf of
the God of justice.
It is in this character of irascibility and of vindictiveness, which not even the prophets can completely transfigure into their ideal of
a God of justice, that Yahweh has been compared to the Vedic Varuna.
This doctrine rendered meaningless the traditional
God of justice, compassion and salvation, replacing it with an ethics fit only for a society of unimaginative shopkeepers.
As
a God of justice and love he would never prescribe infinite punishment for a finite crime no matter how wicked: http://bit.ly/17fVMYm
It is about
a God of Justice (read «American» concept of «justice»).
We are in the midst of a history, the total meaning of which we do not know, whose limits we can not escape, but which we know to be directed toward its fulfillment by
a God of justice and love.
The God of justice and love of whom he testified is either truly our — and that is for all of us «our» — creator and redeemer or not the true God at all.
«Our God is
a God of justice, and He's nuts about kids!»
He summons us to the worship not of a womb or even of a tomb but of
the God of justice who exposes the idolatrous worship of nation and power.
God is a God of love but also he is
a God of justice and That will by no means clear the guilty.
Apart from the envisagement of the forms, creativity is «chaos, burning fire,» the divine - demonic power that the prophets of Israel struggled against in declaring Yahweh to be
a God of justice.
KC reminds us that to be spiritual is to profess the God of life,
God of justice and the God of righteousness.
Today, as I have many days before, I pray for my enemy — I pray him into the hands of
the God of justice and of mercy.
Or «
god of justice» may arise within the experience of the impulse towards equity in the life of organized society.
Not to do so is to abandon and deny
the God of justice and Christ Jesus who came into the world to free us from evil like this.
That is, if one believes in
a God of justice and love and righteousness, is not - this the very reason why salvation means liberation?
In that you say, «Everyone who does evil [Is] good in the sight of the Lord, And He delights in them,» Or, «Where [is]
the God of justice?»
And God is
a God of justice, but most Christians are not really aware of how God carries out justice.
The God of justice becomes the stern God on his throne.
Technology — «what works» — has become our god, expressed in all the most powerful myths of the most powerful media, while
the God of justice and love is relegated to the sidelines of life, expressed in antiquated language and obscure stories lacking both clarity and relevance.
For many persons, coping with this anxiety is facilitated by devotion to
the God of justice, love, and truth, and to the realization of his kingdom.
God is love, and wants us to love others the way we love ourselves... AND God is
a God of justice and law.
«5 This polarity between man's freedom and God's transcendence also appears in Gabriel Vahanian's reflection on Macleish's theme J.B., viz., that
a God of justice has nothing to do with life because life is moved by love: Why try to prove God, if all that man needs is to be himself?
Have you ever heard someone say, «God is a God of love, but He is also
a God of justice?»
God of justice and compassion, God of Republicans and Democrats and Independents, God of the poor and the 1 % and the middle class, in the heat of this election year we pray for our nation, our churches, and ourselves.
In terms of how my faith played a part in making that decision, God is
the God of justice, these things are evil, and it is biblical, right, and godly to pursue justice.
You might have heard someone say that God is a God of love, but He is also
a God of justice.
I'm pretty sure God is
a God of justice - and that the Bible says so (my apologies for not remembering chapter and verse).
But God of the Bible is straighforward: He makes it clear that He is a God of wrath ---- a God of love ---- and smack in the middle of it all ---
a God of justice.
For the Lord is
a God of justice.
We know that God is the God of love, but He is also
the God of justice, and for each and every single one of justice, justice will be served, if not in this world, then in the next — the kicker being that Jesus Christ jumped in and allowed justice for our sins to be meted out on him.
Not exact matches
On social media, readers expressed intense loathing («I hate these people so much,») threats
of physical violence («Dear
god, I want to punch them in the face,») and a longing for karmic
justice («I've never wanted the entire real estate market to completely collapse until now»).
God will cause them to suffer in due course, but you know —
God just doesn't smite people the way He used to and sometimes one can just get sick and tired
of waiting for divine
justice.
the best any one
of us can do is kno our part in the kingdom and to play that to the best we can, trusting that
God is bringin about
justice in his timing.
This is the same
God that I regretably believed actually burns people for all
of eternity??? Someone a Christian holds onto «
justice» and
God being «perfect» to justify punishment without purpose?
And that in response to what I have said about knowing our part in the kingdom, trusting
God for
justice and the privelidge it is to be part
of that, you see different roles for the husband and wife in the relationship, in that it requireds a huband to «woo» to use an old fashioned word, his wife by being sacrificual and that engendering in her the submission in a spirit
of mutual submission.
The church is not authorized to represent the reign
of God, his
justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers
of evil and bearing in its own life the cost
of the challenge.
I will say this much, wheter you like it or not Islam will dominate the world and evil will lose its place and truth will pravail,
justice will be in place, that is Promise
of God almighty.
How about this for
justice —
God decides to punish all
of those who believed in him as a «safety net» and never really looked for the truth.
If anything, this demonstrates our sense
of justice couldn't possibly come from
god.
Hitler's» I'm a Christian» is like atheists looking at «In
God we Trust» n swearing it is a secular motto or looking at the Scales
of Justice n the Angel
of Justice oblivious
of their Judaeo - Christian symbolism.
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God is a
God of Wrath — Love ---- and smack dab in the middle is «
Justice.»
Such a suggestion, however, would not do
justice to Richard's recognition that this «time toward home» is always under the judgment
of God.