There was something special and unique about Yahweh that he would insist that the Hebrews overlay their land with divine justice in their courts, before their judges. Here is the quote from The New American Bible, Exodus 23:6-7: “You shall not deny one of your needy fellow men his rights in his lawsuit. You shall keep away from anything dishonest. The innocent and the just you shall not put to death, nor shall you acquit the guilty.”
Here is this same passage from the Holy Bible (KJV): “Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and the righteous slay thou not; for I will not justify the wicked.”
My response: God will not justify the wicked guilty of injustice, murder corruption and dishonesty. Not only are we to be true, faithful and lawful, we are to act that way ethically to.
One cannot thereby, I assume, enter the kingdom of heaven by faith alone, but must be ethical, and politically, commercially, and legally just too. Goodness is real and is ontological, and God records everything we do.
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