Thursday, December 14, 2006

Little Book of Biblical Justice

Reading books is not a strong point of mine but every now and then I put in the effort as someone once told me "you will not make a stand for your convictions unless you have understanding of your convictions" or something to that effect.

This book has some insiteful stuff with some quotes to follow from this little book (which I would say is of medium size 74 pages in total).

Justice is one of the most frequently recurring topics in the Bible. For example, the main vocabulary items for sexual sin appear about 90 times in the Bible, while the major Hebrew and Greek words for justice (mishpat, sedeqah, diskaiosune, krsis) occur over 1000 times ... (from page 10)

... "Take the term "righteousness," for example, which occurs frequently in the Bible. The biblical language of righteousness refers broadly to "doing, declaring, or bringing about what is right." When it is used in contexts that deal with conflict, coercion, orr social distribution, it often has the force of justice or justice-making. (from page 11)

For study : Amos 5:24, Isa 32:1, Ps 72:1-2, Isa 42:1-7.

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