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- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
God does not give us salvation because we believe. Our believing is only the normal way of receiving the salvation he freely gives.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sinful world, no community can exist for long where nobody is ever held accountable: no teacher would grade a student's performance; no citizen would sit on a jury or call a failed leader to account.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
No doubt, corporate CEOs who lie to their shareholders and politicians who lie to their public know and believe intellectually that lying is immoral. Why then do they lie? They lie to others because they first lie to themselves.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
- Nov 07, 2020
Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision.
- Christian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Retributive justice did not arise from any Christian principle; almost every pre-Christian society dealt with wrongdoers by causing them pain.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jesus said that we should render to the state what properly belongs to the state, and though he had taxes in mind, we might reasonably infer that giving the state the job of punishing wrongdoers is one way of giving the state its due.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Restorative justice is not a replacement of retributive justice, but a complement. It seeks the rehabilitation of the wrongdoer and the repair of the victim's injury.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God's justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we have been badly injured and clearly wronged, we make an instant caricature of the person who did it to us. We define him totally by the one wrong he did.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020