Law 4

Equality and justice are both very widely used and very easily confused. Equality justifies that before the law all citizens are equal without judgment for any reason, and that equal opportunities are guaranteed to all citizens. It is the principle that all people are treated in the same way. In other words, equality focuses more on the way people are perceived and considered. Whereas justice on the other hand, is the value of being just or fair, it is the concept of moral correctness. It is more focused on centralizing equality in law, rather than making it. Both words appear in the context of laws often, especially in the CLS movement. With a postmodern worldview, the critical legal studies (CLS) group focuses on their claim that the political system and laws are not separate. To fix the problem they see, CLS intends to turn such customs around. CLS aims to bring equality to all people and to breakdown the social classes in society. To us as Christians however, we understand that in some cases like making men and women completely equal is wrong, and homosexuality shouldn’t be altered to be acceptable. People were created like these laws, individually with special attention on purpose. Not to be recreated to promote such things as homosexuality or abortion. Laws cannot be broken or simply create equality; people need laws intentionally to not make us equal so we do not fail as a society.

God intends for Christians to do justice in a number of ways. We are called in Jeremiah to do what is just and to rescue the one who has been robbed and oppressed (22:3). And in Micah we are called to act justly and walk humbly with God (6:8). In James we are called to keep from being polluted by the world (1:27) and in Deuteronomy to fear the Lord and to walk in obedience with him (10:12). In Deuteronomy 10:19 we are called to love foreigners, as we were once foreigners in Egypt. Every Christian is told to do what they can to help others, the second commandment, love your neighbor as yourself is an example of this. Though we are supposed to do these things, we should not do them to the extent of the CLS group and disobey or change the law to make things easier or for any other unusual reason. We must remember that God intentionally placed everyone and made everything in law intentionally to rule us.