Biblical Justice, Social Justice, and Forensic Science with Jennifer Hall Rivera
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 15 March 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m talking about the difference between biblical justice and social justice. Justice and judgment are used interchangeably in the Old Testament. They are a part of God’s holiness but are delivered with grace and mercy. I’m joined by Jennifer Rivera from Answers in Genesis and we’re going to talk about forensic science and how that fits in a biblical worldview.
Stick around for Happy Hour where I’m talking about progressive Christianity and why it is so important that we know the word of God and that we can defend it.
Show Notes: http://heidistjohn.com/blog/podcasts/biblical-justice-social-justice-forensic-science-jennifer-hall-rivera
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| 0:00.0 | In recent years the church has really struggled with the conflation of the justice of God and social justice. |
| 0:07.2 | Today my guest Dr. Jennifer Rivera who is a forensic scientist is going to be talking to us a little bit about justice and why |
| 0:14.2 | God is a god of justice and I'm going to look a little bit about what |
| 0:17.5 | separates God from the way the world sees justice in particular the way we talk about social justice. This is the |
| 0:24.4 | Heidi St. John podcast. I'm really glad you're here. Stick around. I think you're |
| 0:27.4 | going to be encouraged. The issue of justice is a really interesting topic in the culture today because recently and I would say probably this is about 10 years old we |
| 0:44.5 | started hearing about something called social justice. I think it is an infection in the |
| 0:50.3 | church quite frankly this idea that God is not a God of justice the way that the world |
| 0:55.0 | sees him and that somehow we need to put our own definition of justice into what we know to be true |
| 1:01.3 | about the character of God and come up with our own |
| 1:03.9 | definition of justice and that is social justice. Scott David Allen wrote a book |
| 1:08.5 | quite a while ago I think it I think it came out maybe four years ago and I did a |
| 1:12.4 | podcast on it so I'm not going to spend a lot of time |
| 1:15.2 | on talking about that today but his book is called Why Social Justice is not biblical justice. |
| 1:21.5 | An urgent appeal to fellow Christians in a time of social crisis. |
| 1:27.0 | And he makes so many great points in the book, but I recently discovered a synopsis of the book |
| 1:31.8 | which I thought was excellent and it says this. |
| 1:33.7 | In recent years a set of ideas rooted in postmodernism and neo-Marxist critical theory |
| 1:40.9 | have merged into a comprehensive worldview. |
| 1:44.0 | Labeled quote social justice by its advocates it has radically redefined the popular |
| 1:50.6 | understanding of justice. It purports to value equality and diversity and to |
| 1:55.4 | champion the cause of the oppressed. Yet far too many Christians have little knowledge of this ideology |
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