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Jannes Smith

Dr. Jannes Smith is Professor of Old Testament, Vice-Principal, and Registrar at the Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Ontario.

Oct 5, 2026

26:24
Mm.
26:24
And, and that justice is not really part of that.
26:28
And it's, it's a view that in the end doesn't really satisfy.
26:32
I think that if you have a perspective where God is love and therefore, um, we find ourselves attracted to passages in which God is portrayed as kind and merciful may satisfy us in times when life goes well, but it doesn't really satisfy us so well in the harder times of life.
26:55
Um, if you were to, uh, talk to victims of injustice and abuse who feel powerless because it feels as though there is no one on their side, um, love means that there's someone there for them who protects them from abusers and who protects them from people who treat them horribly and is someone who is with them no matter what.
27:22
Um, or you might think of persecuted Christians who have gone through horrible traumas in which they have seen their loved ones, um, killed and their properties taken away.
27:35
They can really identify with the need for a God of justice, uh, because they need justice.

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Mm.

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