God’s Judgment and Justice

Here we see that God isn’t a perfect judge or at least we don’t believe so. It is seen in the bible “Doth God pervert judgment? Or doth the Almighty pervert justice?” (Job Ch8, 3) This is a very important part for it shows us that humans had begun to question the powers of God. Although he was still “Almighty” it showed that he still wasn’t perfect. We didn’t see perfection in him anymore. I would say, that we can say this can go back to the story of David. In the end David started to do what I believe are bad things. An example of this was killing the husband of a woman he wanted in order to get her. God forgave him and wasn’t really angry at what he had done but the fact that this was done without the Lord being conscious about it. This would show me that god isn’t necessarily moral by the definition we follow. He even contradicts himself because he said in the Commandments “Thou shall not commit adultery.” There is another explanation of this which is that there is more than one holy entity in the bible. First the God that created the world is the same one that created the Commandments but the Lord seems to be a different person that doesn’t seem to be affected by what God does. This is why I believe he forgave David so easily for his sin.

Another part of God’s Judgment with people is the tests he puts upon them. Before we were talking about the Justice that the Lord gave but now his judgment is the main idea.  In the book of Job we see that Lord allowed Satan to do as he wished with Job. He did several tests and other things not only to make him suffer but to prove the Lord wrong. What Satan proposed was evil in nature and it shouldn’t have been allowed yet the Lord let him go on and even use his powers to perform the test. This proves that the Lord may be more human than what we thought he was before we started t read the Bible, not only because he can make mistakes and have a bias towards someone but also because he can be apparently easily influenced to do evil as well.

Finally it is clear our version of Judgment and Justice might not be directly related with that of the Lord. We are humans and our view might be too narrow to admire the truth but still if we were made in the image of god shouldn’t we be perfect as well? Shouldn’t we be able to see justice in what he proposes? Finally if humans eventually turn evil as the Bible has proven does that mean that deep inside of God there is a seed of evil waiting to grow?