When Yahweh selects elders and judges among the Hebrew about to enter Israel, his view of being a just judge is laid out nobly by Yahweh. Here is this verse from The New American Bible: “I charged your judges at that time: Listen to complaints among your kinsmen, and administer true justice to both parties even if one of them is an alien. In rendering judgment, do not consider who a person is; give ear to the lowly and to the great alike, fearing no man, for judgment is God’s. Refer to me any case that is too hard for you and I will hear it.”
What I love about the Old Testament, Judaism, Yahweh and the Hebrew faith and culture is early, consistent commitment to a just judicial system, as both the lowly and the great, even the alien.
For judgment is God’s: Yahweh judges each human soul, as later His Son Jesus would die on the cross for our sins and then come back at the end of time to judge all.
God loves spiritual and moral goodness, and hates, judges and punishes spiritual and moral wickedness, and an unjust judge is an abomination unto God.
As an aside, I admire Hebraic culture and justice for giving justice to the alien. That is not the same as amnesty or open borders. We have a right, even a legal and moral duty to send our illegal aliens home to build a free, capitalist, individualistic, American-Way and American-Like culture at home, blended with their own cultures and mores.
Here are these same passages from the Holy Bible (KJV): “And I have charged your judges at that time. Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and thee stranger that is with him.
You shall not respect persons in judgments; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring it unto me, and I will hear it.”
Mt response: That phrase admonish the elders or judges to judge righteously interests me, and a quick online search reveals the phrase is prominent in Christianity in both the Old Testament and the New Testament. To judge righteously they said was to detect truth from lie or error, good from evil, right and wrong, to adjudicate cases fairly and impartially for thus the judge emulates the righteous, moral, supernatural Judge of all humankind, Yahweh.
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