- Last Name
- NORTH
- First Name
- Gary
- Title
- Victim's Rights: The Biblical View of Civil Justice
- Publisher
- Institute for Christian Economics
- Year
- 1990
- Group
- MOH2 AIC8 PMO4
- Comments
- American Vision and I.C.E.Free books
Summary: "Why is there so much injustice in the world?" This is a universal question. It has a universal answer: "Because mankind has departed from biblical law." But nobody believes this answer today, including evangelical Christians. Victim's Rights is a detailed study of Exodus 21 and 22: the case laws. It identifies the fundamental principle of biblical civil justice: the obligation of the civil government to defend the interest of the victims of crime, and the obligation of the criminal, not the State, to pay restitution. The criminal does not owe a "debt to society." He owes a debt to his victim.
Because modern Christians have neglected or rejected the case laws of Exodus, they are now in judicial bondage to humanists, who see criminals as the victims and the law-abiding public as the aggressor. "Society" is said to be at fault. This the philosophy of environmental determinism. Result: injustice on a wide scale. What is needed is exactly what Colson recommends: a return to the case laws of the Bible. Victim's Rights shows what judicial changes this would require and how such a system could work today.
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