Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel – Justice | Rapp Report Daily 0139 | Striving for Eternity

Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications. This is a ministry of striving for eternity.

Justice and the Image of God

Looking at the statement of social justice in the gospel, something you can read and sign at statementonsocialjustice .com. We're looking at article number three on justice, speaking of God, it states, we affirm that since he is holy, righteous, and just, God requires those who bear his image to live justly in the world.

This includes showing appropriate respect to every person and given to each one what he or she is due. We affirm that societies must establish laws to correct injustices that have been imposed through cultural prejudice.

We deny that the true justice can be culturally defined or that standard of justice that are merely socially constructed can be imposed with the same authority as those that are derived from scripture.

We further deny that Christians can live justly in a world under any principles other than the biblical standard of righteousness. Relativism, socially constructed standards of truth or morality, and notions of virtue and vice that are consistently in flux cannot result in authentic justice.

The Nature of God as the Final Authority for Justice

In other words, the final authority for all justice that we as Christians would see, and in fact everyone in the world, would be from the nature of God. Where do we learn that? We learn that from scripture alone.

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