THE FOUNDERS' WORLDVIEW
THE FOUNDING PRINCIPLES APPLIED
JUSTICE AND FAIRNESS
Justice is little understood in our nation today. Why? Because justice as framed by the Founders requires absolute standards of right and wrong. Such standards have been systematically eliminated from our society over the past thirty years. Without absolutes, Biblical justice has given way to relative ideas referred to as "social" or "economic" justice picking up notions of a "class struggle."
"Justice" Webster (1828) defines as "conformity to the laws and to principles of rectitude in the dealings of men with each other; impartiality; equity and right." We are a far cry from the moorings of justice as understood by the people who lived in our nation during the early years.
Today, in dispensing justice, fairness has replaced the concepts of right and wrong. The question of whether or not something is fair does not appear in the Bible. Justice is measured in terms of the rule of law and tempered by mercy from the one in authority. Fairness is a man-centered question decided according to the rule of circumstances. Consequently, justice in a man-centered society is based on what is deemed fair and reasonable replacing the standards of right and wrong found in a God-centered society.
The rule of circumstances involves such principles as "might makes right," "the survival of the fittest" and "natural selection" that reign over a man-centered society where the golden rule is "he who has the gold, rules." Is it any wonder that the "halls of justice" are confounded by the onslaught of cases that mushroom out of the murky recesses of the legislative and administrative bogs?
In the streets of a man-centered nation, the Humanistic/Atheistic cries for social and economic justice demand equal results to be enforced by the god-State which, after all, is the exclusive sovereign over the people. This contrasts with the Biblical principles of individuality where Almighty God grants all people equal opportunity to achieve the highest goals they individually set for themselves. No State-imposed goals or objectives are required in a God-centered nation.
To attain "social" justice, the god-State imposes more social programs for distributing the wealth it collects from those who produce in a man-centered society. Such social justice is involuntary for those whose only "wrong" is that they have more than others in a society. Such a situation is simply not "fair" in the eyes of a benevolent bureaucratic dictatorship guided only by (a) the materialistic observations of its five physical senses, and (b) the wielded power of the street demonstrators, opinion polls and the Humanistic/Atheistic media.
By comparison, the God-centered state relies on the free response of God-centered people who voluntarily respond with compassion from the heart rather than involuntary state-imposed compassion extracted from their pocketbooks. Romans 1:20-27 outlines the results flowing from the process of exchanging worship of the creature-State for the worship of the Creator; namely, the emerging of a sodomite dominated society producing the unnatural acts of lesbianism and homosexuality.
The educational system in a worshipped creature-State is stripped of Biblical God-centered knowledge. Romans 1:28-32 lists the ills attendant such a man-centered education without God. John Dewey's "social reconstruction" through our public school educational system has produced a virtually silent revolution but for the muffled screams of its victims and their loved ones throughout our land.
The revolution in the United States of America is almost over. The Humanistic/Atheistic enemy has all but completed its work in our public schools, media, entertainment field, seminaries and civil governmental agencies throughout our land. Sadly, the great majority of us do not even know that a battle is raging for the very soul of our nation.
Our only hope lies in God and those remaining faithful to His call for repentance, forgiveness and revival. Obedience to His command to educate our nation requires us to establish righteousness under the authority of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and to teach this nation of the United States of America to obey His commandments (Matt. 28:18-20). Through our obedience, only He can save us as the Supreme Lawgiver, Judge and King (Isa. 33:22).
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