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This quarter’s studies are on the theme of God’s Love and Justice.
The focus on what is called theodicy, a concept that attempts to defend God’s goodness in relation to the existence of evil. It comes from two Greek words, theos (God) and dike (righteous). The terms that occurs in the New Testament is dikaiosune theou, the righteousness of God. The verb dikaioo means to make right.
Consequently it is unfortunate that all too often these “dik-” words are translated as “just” or “justice’ which have different connotations. Even the word “vengeance” in the Greek is ekdikos, which really means to bring right out of something.
So the title of these studies might better have been titled “God’s Love and Rightness,” because that is the Scriptural use in the Greek New Testament. All too often our concept of “justice” is colored by the sense of penalty and punishment. Let’s keep this in mind as we work through these studies.
Through our ability to love we most clearly reflect the image of God. And because God is love, He made us–for love wishes to have someone to love, someone to relate to. God made us to love and be loved, and when that capacity is hurt or destroyed, then we are that much less like God. This is why your ability to love and be loved is under so much attack, for the Evil One knows that this is the best way to pervert and misrepresent the God who is love.
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