February 3, 2025

One of the tenets of Scripture is that the person who sins will be responsible for their sins. It’s mentioned emphatically in Ezekiel 18, and is repeated throughout the New Testament. If you sin, you will answer for those sins, not anyone else’s. Unless, that is, you have an ox that happens to kill someone. […]

It’s sometimes hard to make sense of the justice of God. But make no mistake: If it’s confusing or seems excessive to us, the problem is with us, not God. Take the laws in Exodus 21, for instance. Some of them are deliberately intense. The person who “strikes” or “curses” their parent is executed (Exodus