What is Divine Justice

The human being has values ​​and ideas with a universal dimension. In this way, friendship, love, solidarity or justice are common in all cultures, although each tradition Cultural provides its own vision and nuances with respect to each of them.

The desire for justice arises from the need to live in a society in which a certain harmony prevails, in which there are no situations of abuse and where a Balance. The desire for justice is born the need to create laws, so that the human being forms legal codes and norms that serve to restore justice. However, human justice is by definition imperfect, since man sometimes makes mistakes when judging, acts with prejudices and their vision of what is fair or unfair depends on a social context and the limitations of their own laws.

Divine justice as an ideal

The limitations of human justice mean that in the sphere of all religions there is a superior justice, divine justice. It is a belief based on faith and consists of the conviction that a God, a higher entity or the order of the Nature imposes authentic justice in some way, without possible error and giving each one what he deserves.

For Christians, divine justice will be effective in the Final Judgment or Universal Judgment, when each man will be accountable to God, in such a way that God will judge each one according to what he has done in his lifetime. The same idea is maintained in Islam, but instead of the Last Judgment the expression Retribution Day.

For the ancient Egyptians there was also an idea of ​​divine justice, because they believed in reincarnation and in the next life the deity known as Maat would be in charge of eradicating evil and imposing the well.

In most religions, divine justice is presented as a force that counteracts the weaknesses and insufficiencies of human justice. This is what happens with Hinduism, a polytheistic religion but with a key concept, karma. The so-called Law Karma governs all that has been created and is the entity or force responsible for establishing true justice.

Criticism of the idea of ​​Divine Justice

From some philosophical approaches it is understood that the concept of divine justice is nothing more than a human invention that arises as a consequence logic to believe in a creator God or a higher order spiritual entity. For these philosophers divine justice is a conceptual fiction and does not make any sense from a strictly rational point of view.

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