Acts 17:24-31
God Has Appointed Jesus as Judge at the End of Times
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill. 30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
John 3:16-17
God's Love for the World
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Romans 3:22-26
We Fall Short of the LORD
22 There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. 25 God presented Christ as a sacrifice of atonement, through the shedding of his blood—to be received by faith. He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished— 26 he did it to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.
St. Paul says that God has sent and given us an Appointed Judge, who one day will He will judge the world...For God has set a day when the world will be judged by the Man He has appointed...And God has given us proof that Jesus is this Judge of the World by raising Him from the dead...
So Jesus is our Judge, and He will bring justice to the world...But as justice is looked at, we cannot look at justice and how we are judged in singular way...Our Judge is a very complex Man, if it is fair to call Him a Man...He knows that when being just and judging others that other things come into account...For instance, just giving us or anyone true and exact justice, may not be justice...Justice has to be looked at with mercy, with forgiveness, with love, with Truth, and with grace...I believe mercy, forgiveness, love, Truth, and grace are apart of justice...Without including these other things in justice, then justice is condemning the whole world...And God did not send Jesus to condemn the world but to save the world with these other characteristics needed to provide True Justice...And I believe in Jesus' Teachings we learn that there cannot be justice without mercy...
We all have fallen short of the LORD with our sins...So when you look singularly at justice, isn't that a form of injustice if you always exclude forgiveness, mercy, truth, love, and grace?...