A Comment on the Cries for Justice in America: Everybody is
crying out for Justice, but how can you call for justice without the whole
truth?
Do you know what happened in the Garden of Eden? The simple
story is the game of shame and blame; Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the
serpent, and the serpent ducked for cover and slithered away, laughing as he
went.
The toll was terrible. Adam and Eve, not being satisfied
with having everything, wanted their own way, lost Paradise, and sin had
entered into the world and God had to send His Son, a blood sacrifice for them
all. All that is, except for the
serpent. The last laugh was on him. “He who sitteth in the heavens hath the
devil in derision.”
But sin, in the form of bloody murder, had entered into the
world and with that, murder…Cain killed Abel…and the cry for justice entered
the world. The blood of Abel cried out from the very ground, and the theme of
the mystery novel was born. What happened? Who did it? Will justice be done in
the end?
Justice is being confused with entitlement. Like Adam and Eve,
people want their own way, not accountability. Justice and entitlement are not the same thing. You cannot tell the story of
justice accomplished without telling the story of why it was needed. You cannot
do true justice unless the justice meted out is commensurate with the bloody
crimes that call for it.
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