Comments on Mark's blog: Judgment

both are true

2008-11-25T22:24:00.000-08:00

both are true

oops..I meant justice is a beautiful thing. :)

2008-11-25T19:00:00.000-08:00

oops..I meant justice is a beautiful thing. :)

oops, i meant the second to last paragraph...towar...

2008-11-25T12:48:00.000-08:00

oops, i meant the second to last paragraph...towards the end

I hope i did not give the impression that i believ...

2008-11-25T12:40:00.000-08:00

I hope i did not give the impression that i believe that judgment is for man. the reason i take issue with fear of the word is not because i believe that judgment belongs to me, but rather because of the apprehension that i have encountered in myself and others toward the righteousness of God's justice. the reason i equate post-modern though to one source of this apprehension is because of the fear of finality, definition, or exclusion within that school of thought. I don't think that this is exclusive to post-modernism, attitudes of entitlement arose before the rise of post-modernism. anyways, i hope that i was clear that judgment is God's and God's alone, along with any glory that come from it...that was my intention at least with the last paragraph. i did not mean to say that we can administer justice, but rather that we should rejoice in God's administration of it.

regarding the connection between justice and judgment, i do not think that the connection is contrived, or specifically western, but even if it is i was responding to the western idea of justice and how it is ironic that we abhor judgment(as it is defined biblically) but love justice(as it is defined now...or biblically...as i said, i don't think there's a difference). thanks for your insight, daniel may. i hope i cleared up anything that was unclear.

hmm...I think the reason why people tend to stay a...

2008-11-25T11:32:00.000-08:00

hmm...I think the reason why people tend to stay away from the word "judgment" is not because of post-modern thought but because the Bible is pretty clear that judgment is reserved for God and God alone...ESPECIALLY in light of the cross.

i'm also going to have to think about your connection between justice and jugement because that has a real western idea of justice sound to it that is perhaps foreign to the new testament writers.

we'll dialog more :)

I love this blog. There is a song we sing at churc...

2008-11-25T10:05:00.000-08:00

I love this blog. There is a song we sing at church and I don't know what it's called and I've only sung it once but a line in it says something like "thank you for justifying me". The term justifying hit so hard because for God to justify me is so unbelievable and beautiful. Not only His grace but His mercy has really been resonating in me lately, and yes, judgement is a beautiful thing. :)