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No, God is not unjust. He did not cause Christ's "oppression", He dies not punish the Just, and He does not clear the guilty. I also view it as only negative. But in the end our understanding does not matter. Words actually have meaning. Retribution - the dispensing or receiving of reward...

If I employ, say, a builder to repair my house, my payment to him would be recompense for his work. I have never heard of such a payment being called 'retribution.' In my understanding 'recompense' can be positive or negative; retribution only negative. This is very interesting. Jeremiah...

What if Jesus was given the name of (i.e. the authority of) YHWH for his ministry, per Jn 17:11? This then accounts for why faith in Jesus under the New Covenant fulfils the Joel prophecy: it denotes recognition of Jesus as God's Son, and allows, as Jesus himself allowed, that the YHWH name was...

It should go without saying that YHWH ( Jehovah, LORD) does not appear anywhere in the New Testament. The word used is theos, 'God,' kurios, 'Lord' or pater, 'Father,' which is of course how Christians are instructed to address God (Matt. 6:9). So when we consider Joel 2:32, '...And it shall...

Nehemiah’s was a solitary prayer, but the Bible makes it clear that God looks for His people to come together in corporate prayer at times of emergency. In 2Chronicles 20, when Judah was threatened by a great invasion, King Jehoshaphat did two things (v3f). He ‘set himself to seek the LORD’...