Reminder: Liberals do not understand justice.
in a sense that a good portion of them believe a person - who is of a lower socio-economic standing than the median - should be given lighter punishments than the median and those in higher socio-economic standing. [Video]
One such specimen in the link video above have even moronically claimed, "JUSTICE IS GREATER THAN THE COUNTRY, GREATER THAN MONEY(which is fair, actually, but then he followed-up with:), GREATER GOD." ; that upholding the law is, somehow, equal to cleansing the land. A genocide. A mass, deliberate discrimination of marginalized groups that aren't even legal citizens of the host country.
...can you hear the logic train derail?...
God IS Justice (Psalm 89:14)
every Christian - and every sane human being, religious or not - are expected to believe that everyone ought to be held accountable for their crimes without discrimination. Their status ought to mean nothing in the court of law - in the same way a wealthy man and a poor man are both the same in the eyes of God; they are both His beloved children.
He is filled with joy when He sees us enter heaven. But, at the same time, His heart breaks when we refuse to be saved and are, therefore, damned for eternity.
Theologically speaking,
Romans 3:23 - "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God".
someone who has lighter sins is no more qualified to enter heaven than those who have sinned greatly and gravely.
Heaven's border patrol has one requirement: that you be repentant and washed clean of your sins.
How?
Believe in the Son of the living God of Abraham - and of Isaac, and of Jacob - Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, the Messiah. And confess and give your sins to Him. With the understanding that He died, taking your sins with him, and rose again after 3 days, in order that you, too, might find life.
Noone comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ.
That's it.
Only the repentant believers of Christ are freely given citizenship into the eternal kingdom of Heaven.
Even the gravest of sinners, if they know truly that their hearts are heavy with guilt and confess their sins to Christ, are deserving of forgiveness. (in Luke 23:43, Paul was forgiven of his sin of persecuting Christians - You heard that right.)
Let no man of lighter sin show scorn towards a fellow sibling in Christ.
But BECAUSE God is just - as well as merciful - the alternative is also open to all:
Hell is a default destination.
Romans 6:23 - "the wages of sin is death."
Where all the unrepentant and sinful are waltzing towards.
Here, it does not matter how much you have smiled to your neighbors, or how often you say "thank you".
You are still carrying your sins around... You are still a sinner. Even if you did good. (Ephesians 2:8-9 , salvation by grace - which you can CHOOSE not to receive - not by works)
But here's where mercy plays in: The love of God allowed for you so many opportunities to lay down and confess your sins to His son - Jesus. So many opportunities, day after day, to believe that Jesus died for you. So many chances to believe that, through Christ alone, you, with all your sins, may be born again and cleansed of your sins, and be worthy of eternal life.
Protestant teaching also stresses rejection of Christ as the basis of condemnation (John 3:18).
Hell is a conscious choice. It's like gravity...
It is a conscious and deliberate denial of salvation.
It's basically you choosing not to pull the tab for the parachute....
How are these related to liberalism?
Here the thing...
Many of them actually, truly, HONESTLY believe that illegal immigrants (front any country to ANY country) who are from a lower socio-economic background than the host country should essentially be given the legal equivalent of a slap on the wrist for.. trespassing, basically.. into the host country.
The Liberal argument is that "it's called justice!"
That’s not justice - that’s partiality. And biblically, partiality is specifically condemned:
Many liberals genuinely believe that undocumented immigrants -especially those from poorer backgrounds - should be shielded from the full weight of the law. They often frame this as justice. but what it really amounts to is partiality...
different rules for different people, depending on circumstances.
But partiality is not justice. The Bible is explicit about this:
"You shall do no injustice in court. You shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great, but in righteousness shall you judge your neighbor." (Leviticus 19:15)
Poverty doesn’t give you a free pass to break the law any more than wealth should let you buy your way out of it.
and when we see parables where godly men are seen forgiving the thief "who needed it", that's because the godly man is the owner. ..The godly man still has the right to decide where to consider the stolen goods as "donations" instead. But had he considered it theft, the laws of the land would've still applied.
there's a difference between mercy on a personal level and justice on a societal/legal level.
Let me frame it here :
In Jesus’ parables, when the master or owner forgives a debt or chooses not to press charges, that’s within his rights. Mercy is never injustice when it comes from the rightful owner.
But if a judge or ruler decides that any thief who “needed it” should automatically be excused, that’s partiality - which Scripture condemns (as stated in Leviticus 19:15).
Mercy is voluntary.
Justice is impartial.
One doesn’t cancel the other - they operate in different spheres.
Without true justice, there is no true mercy.
By excusing an unrepentant murderer who robbed and killed because he "needed it", you show neither justice nor mercy to the victim. (this is entirely different from a thief repenting to God. Your soul is not yours, nor does it below to the people a thief steals from. It belongs God. He alone has authority to forgive.)
So, yeah...
If someone steals bread from me, I can forgive it. I can even say, "You know what? Treat it as a gift."
But if they steal bread from the bakery down the street, it’s not for me to declare it "just". The owner still has the right to press charges.
That’s the line liberals blur: they confuse personal compassion (which Christians are commanded to show) with structural justice (which must remain impartial). When the two get swapped, you don’t end up with mercy - you end up with favoritism.
"Justice is greater than God"
That’s backwards... In fact, that's a moronic thing to say. If you divorce "justice" from God, what you’re left with isn’t real justice - it’s just human preference wearing a moral mask. It's like saying "the light is greater than the sun". You only have light because the sun exists.
Socio-economic standing as a legal metric:
If you start judging based on whether someone is poor or rich, you’ve abandoned equal justice. The poor person might get away with theft because "they needed it," while the rich person might get slammed harder because "they can afford the punishment." That’s not justice - that’s plain favoritism. True justice is blind: the law applies the same to everyone, regardless of status.
Then again, we shouldn't expect the people who believe men have the right to get pregnant - and women have the right to murder unborn children on a whim - to know anything about theology, logic, or justice...
