Lawyers
One of the most astonishing realities regarding lawyers is that many of them do not understand how to distinguish between a sin and a crime. What’s more, there are some who don’t know what sin is. There seem to be some who don’t know what a crime is either. With all of the vestiges, vestments, and even investments, the discerning spirit of siphoning out the nature of crime from a sin seems a leap too far for many lawyers and lawmakers these days. For clarity, it is a sin to lust, but it is not nor should it be a crime. It is a sin to covet, but the state shouldn’t attempt to punish coveting. What some lawyers have forgotten is that the state should punish larceny. We should not proceed to throw the baby out with the bathwater. However, we should not attempt to make the bath an aquarium and pretend the baby is a fish either. Attempting to punish sins like lust or covetousness makes the state grasp at being the all-seeing behemoth that it often pretends to be, even attempting to be God in its omniscience. Not punishing legitimate crimes makes the state a like negligent father who absolutely refuses to discipline his children when it is proper. Irrespective of all this, it seems apparent that it broadly conceived by a majority of people, that is the defense lawyers that are the sleezy, cunning, bribe-taking foxes of the legal world - especially in high profile cases - while the prosecution variety of lawyers are the more straight-laced ones that seek to see justice enacted. This stereotype exist probably because it is largely true. However, this is an unfortunate twisting of ultimate reality. That is to say, at the fundamental base of all things, it is the ‘Accuser’, Satan himself, who is dirty, rotten, vile, vicious, and wicked. It is our strong ‘Defender’, Christ, who pardons, cleanses, and even acquits. He can do this because is both the “just and the justifier”, the judge and the defender. He can do this because he has made himself the propitiation, taking off the vestiges of judge and becoming our defender by laying himself on the altar. All Hail our great Judge and King!
