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Essay On Justice In The New Testament

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Do you know what the purpose of this paper is to show the Old Testament's view of justice with the New Testament's view of Justice? We see in today world that the Old Testament's and New Testament has very difference view on justice but first, we need to know what is Justice according to Merriam-Webster dictionary it is the maintenance of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments. The word justice can be seen as a different thing to ever one just like in the bible where both the New and Old Testament showed there to define and way of justice.
In the Bible, we see Justice as a relational on how a person relates to a standard of justice, in this case, God. We see justice as an act of fairness, equality, …show more content…

God has never shown partiality or favoritism as seen in Matt 5:45; Acts 10:34-35; Romans 2:6 Romans 2:11; Eph 6:9; 1 Peter 1:17. We see were in has path Jesus develops more the idea of the Kingdom of God directing his teaching towards the goal of social justice. But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be a slave of all' Mk 10:42-44. Divine justice has taken over the whole concept of the New Testament we see the Golden Rule in Matt 7:12 and Luke 6:31 which we now operate under on the mindset of reciprocity and the thought of loving your enemies in Matt 5:44 and Luke
6:31. while the New Testament ethical teaching is based on the community of faith we indirectly reverently to the larger world and because of this we see were both comes together in the realization of God, Been the best and only true and unbiased Judge we will ever come

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