Judicial Laws of Moses (14) - Limited Justice
The judicial laws of Exodus 22:12-22:16 have just two objectives.
- Protection of Property
- Protection of Human Life
- Theft or damage to property
- Physical injury to a human person.
- Stealing another person’s property (Ex 22:1).
- Breaking into another person’s house (Ex 22:2).
- Allowing animals to wander and destroy another person’s crop (Ex 22:5).
- Allowing fire to spread and destroy another person’s property (Ex 22:6).
- Losing money that has been handed over for safekeeping (Ex 22:7). (This is an important principle for banking).
- Careless care of another person’s property that results in damage (Ex 22:10-13).
- Damaging animals or equipment that has been borrowed. (Ex 22:14-15).
- Assault (Ex 21:18-19).
- Murder with intention to kill (Ex 21:14).
- Manslaughter (Ex 21:13).
- Assaulting a parent is particularly serious, because God requires children to honour their parents (Ex 21:15).
- Kidnapping is a serious assault, because it involves theft of another person’s life (Ex 21:16).
- A serious curse can do as harm a person’s body more than a blow with a fist (Ex 21:17).
- Assaulting and employee (Ex 21:20-21).
- An innocent bystander being injured by men fighting with each other (Ex 21:22-25).
- Allowing an animal or machinery to hurt another person (Ex 21:28-32).
- Leaving a hazard unguarded that hurts another person (Ex 21:33-36).
- Sexual seduction is a serious of assault (Ex 22:16-17).
2 comments:
IMHO God and his Son are the only righteous Judges capable of determining a persons worth. And as we are told He has determined that the life of a SINNER is worth the sacrifice of God's only begotten Son. Money is a poor subsitute when God has already given the Life of His precious Son as A ransom for the same life.
This scripture really supports the death penalty, but who is worthy of judging a man or casting the first stone? There can be no Justice without righteousness, and there can be no righteousness without Christ so therefore if we would pursue Justice we must needs to preach Christ.
As for the life insurance industry we know for sure that their assment of a life's worth must not be trusted because of two things 1.they sell product and thereby get gain by fear mongering therfore can not please God because they procede from fear not faith.
2.they serve money not people ie they don't want to payout and do often escape on technicalities.
Gareth Morgan wrote a good book about Kiwisaver called Kiwisafer which is an eyeopener about the corruption of Multinational insurance companies.
I would not trust the insurance companies either. All I was doing was using them as an example to show that it is possible to make a reasonable, but not perfect, judgement about what a life or loss of a limb or organ is worth. Courts make similar decisions. Therefore we cannot reject the concept, by saying it is imposssible.
Only God can do this perfectly and he will make perfect judgment at the end of the age. In the interim, he expects humans to make judgments, because we are created in his image. If human communities are unwilling to make judgments, then murderers and violent people will be unrestrained.
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