by E.O. | Oct 13, 2023 | Justice
What is justice? It seems that in ordinary parlance justice has come to mean the assignment of punishments to those who have broken the law and harmed others. It is understood as a publicly endorsed process of vengeance. Justice equals punishment. But this is a...
by E.O. | Aug 14, 2023 | Hell, Justice
The Inferno Dante Alighieri wrote the narrative poem, The Divine Comedy, in the late 1300s. The poem is divided into three parts: Inferno (hell); Purgatorio (purgatory); and Paradiso (heaven). It is widely considered to be the greatest literary work in Italian...
by E.O. | Feb 28, 2023 | Grace, Justice, Restitution
Restitution A just world is properly ordered: God is recognized as Lord, while humans live as stewards over creation. In a just world, humans are mutually caring. When injustice occurs, restitution must follow, in order to re-establish the just...
by E.O. | Oct 7, 2021 | Education, Justice, Prejudice, Racism
Something Happened In Our Town is a book written by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins, and Ann Hazzard from the Emory University School of Medicine. A Marshall University article about the book commented: “This New York Times and Indiebound bestseller is written by...
by E.O. | Apr 23, 2021 | Hell, Justice, Suffering
The essay, “Torment Verses” looks at biblical verses that seem to suggest everlasting torment will be the punishment assigned to the wicked. This essay looks at the concept of torment as applied in biblical situations. Is the infliction of pain approved by God? There...
by E.O. | Feb 20, 2021 | Christianity, Deliverance, Easter, God's Love, God's Sovereignty, Holiness, Jesus as God, Justice, Sin
Why Have You Forsaken Me? Matthew 27.45-46 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you...
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