The Concept Of Justice In The Bible

The Concept to Justice Throughout the Bible The concept of Justice is theme that is found throughout the Bible and is interchangeable with the notion of righteousness. It has very different roots that what it is taken for today. Today the concept of justice is typically applied to seeking to right a wrong someone has done to you, like in court or with matters of the law. In the Bible, justice is linked to God and is usually a favorable thing. In this essay I will show how the concept of justice and righteousness has evolved and changed from the old testament to the new. I will use examples such as Job and his struggles with justice. I will then show the heightened sense of justice in the new testament, especially in the end times, at the finally judgment, and how they have changed and evolved with the development of the concept as a whole. In the old testament the concept of justice was used in the terms of God. He was a just God, and that was a blessing to his people. Justice …show more content…
They felt that if you were righteous and justice then nothing would harm you. If you were befallen on with harm or bad luck, then you must have sinned. In the story of Job, who was a just and righteous man, God allows the Devil to set upon him. He is robbed of his wife, children, his home, and all of his livestock. His life is in ruins and he is physically ill. Others are sure that he has sinned and beg him to admit the sin, but he maintains that he is innocent and will not admit to sinning, and will not curse the name of God. In the end he is restored twice as much as everything he has lost, (Job 42:10) (Saint Joseph edition of the New American Bible, 1970). In the end the concept of justice and righteousness as a whole was given by God to Job, by the restoration, redistribution and God making right the health and prosperity of