Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press. Yes God, God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 2 19.

2 19. I'm Douglas Wilson. Thank you for joining me.

So what I want to talk about this morning isn't going to go anywhere.

Well, it'll go somewhere, but you're going to have to take it there.

I just want to challenge a few assumptions that I think a lot of people have. And I think questioning those assumptions might prove fruitful.

So it's the difference between equality and equity. The difference between equality and equity.

The difference between equality and equity.

And I know we've talked about this before in a number of different settings because egalitarianism the the leveling impulse is behind an awful lot of our contemporary problems.

But false assumptions about this have crept into the conservative church, and in many cases just lie

they're dormant until they come out and wreck havoc at some time or other. What do I mean?

Well, there's a difference between equality before the

law which conservative Christians are all about. If someone is arrested for murder, there should be the same treatment for everyone.

You shouldn't be able to convict anyone on the testimony of one witness.

It's not like you get to convict a poor man on the testimony of one witness. It's not like you get to convict a poor man on the

testimony of one witness's witness but you need two or three to convict him if he's

a rich man. Or if it's a woman, you can treat her with sort of a judicial contempt, but then you have to have a high bar of evidence if it's a man, that sort of thing.

And this is a pattern for our law courts

and for decisions where you're looking for equity,

requiring equity, demanding equity,

are all patterned after the last judgment.

God is not a respecter of persons, and when we become and when we come before him at the last day,

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