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"but, we also have to step back and say the term social justice has a pedigree within christian conversation long before the Marxist appropriation of the term and to understand the scripture in cohesive whole of the OT & NT (here's biblical theology again) in the flow of biblical history there is no question about justice being first & foremost God's own infinite perfection and apart of what it means to be made in God's image is that we are accountable to divine justice and to seeking through human flourishing to see God's justice reflected in a fallen world. It becomes more necessary as our concern..." 3:45 "In Deuteronomy, one of the headings is "Teachings on Social Justice". Now that doesn't come from the Frankfurt School. That's not coming from Marxism that's coming from reading Deuteronomy. This is just a very important issue to think about. So in other words we could use the word "Social Justice" and I'm reluctant to use the term generally. I'm talking about justice, which always I think in a biblical frame means an individual responsibility, but it relates also to society. Just read the prophets in the OT..." 4:56 "I'm very concerned about the issue of race as related to the statement and I don't want to read bad motivations on the people who may have signed the statement, but The statement itself i think makes it very difficult to acknowledge the reality of the sin of race on american society and even in american Christianity so that's something that concerns me greatly." What part of the social justice & Gospel statement did you disagree with? 15:38 FULL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPVv-GxjmZE Get the Christian Forums App Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeeroapps.thetheology&hl=en iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/christian-forum-theology/id1336207322?mt=8 Or visit http://thetheology.org/ Why Fight Racial Prejudice? - John Piper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSLWjNdrcvI