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Bible Project podcast — https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/redemption-justice-and-cities-refuge/
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What this book knows
Life belongs to God alone, so wrongful killing creates a cosmic debt only redemptive substitution—not retaliatory cycles—can justly resolve.
faith-and-doubt
God is the rightful owner of our lives. Yet the story of the Bible is how we threw this gift of life away with our violence and oppression.
BP-REDEMPTION-JUSTICE-AND-CITIES-REFUGE-RC-001Who does life really belong to? When a life has been wrongfully taken, how do you make it right? When humans make it right, usually a lot more people die.
BP-REDEMPTION-JUSTICE-AND-CITIES-REFUGE-RC-016God is once again the provider of a substitute, blameless life, so that death isn't visited on the land. This is an equivalent to Passover.
BP-REDEMPTION-JUSTICE-AND-CITIES-REFUGE-RC-015obedience-and-authority
Life doesn't belong to humans. Therefore, humans don't have the right to just take the life of another human. That's the deep assumption here.
BP-REDEMPTION-JUSTICE-AND-CITIES-REFUGE-RC-007When there's murder in the land, it's as if the land itself requires things be made right. The land will hold us accountable.
BP-REDEMPTION-JUSTICE-AND-CITIES-REFUGE-RC-010trauma-and-survival
If it really is life for life, then maybe a representative human—that's what will satisfy true justice. That's the crisis that keeps spreading.
BP-REDEMPTION-JUSTICE-AND-CITIES-REFUGE-RC-0196 published passages · interview · research analysis
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