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C. S. Assess The Relationship Between Justice And Punishment

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What’s the point of God, giving us commandments and there is no legal ramification. The whole point of Jesus dying on the cross and paying for our sins, is because if He hadn’t, then we would have to pay for our sins (Gen. 2). God really did mean that we will die if we sin. In addition, what kind if God would God be if He never punished? What kind of God would God be if he never brought justice? How many people have gotten away with murder, rape, stealing, child abuse, and a lot more? Are not the victims crying out for justice? C. S. Lewis puts it this way,
When souls become wicked they will certainly use this possibility to hurt one another; and this, perhaps, accounts for four-fifths of the suffering of men. It is men, not God, who have produced racks, whips, prisons, slavery, guns, bayonets, and bombs; it is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churchlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork. …show more content…

Because God is love, He feels the pains, the torment, the agony, and the injustice we feel. The Bible talking about Jesus states, “For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:1). The Lord saw the affliction of His people, and heed their cries and send Moses to deliver His people out of Egypt (Exodus 3:7). Then again, the Bible tells us at one point that God could not bear the misery of His people (Judges 10:16). “A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling” (Psalms 68:5 NIV). God’s love is demonstrated in His justice, ““Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the

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