Albert Wolters View Of Punishment

God is eternal, self-existing apart from and not subject to the normal limitations such as physical human experience, or material substance. All creation exists because of the divine purpose, plan, and design of God. As the Great Architect, He designated Christ as the preeminent agent of creation, that all things restored by the way of peace through Christ’s blood, which was sacrificed on the cross. Albert Wolters view in the scope of redemption, when he stated that “all of creation that is included in the scope of redemption God determined ‘to reconcile to Himself all things’.
Due to Adam’s treason, the act of betrayal by declaring independence from God and the Kingdom of Heaven, all the norms of creation became subject to corruption,
The political, philosophical, and moral “theories of punishment” have been legal controversies of jurisdictions on “the justification for punishment”, and the benefit of society to prevent the reoccurrence of civil disobedience. Consequently, as Brauch explains, “people have justified punishment variously as promoting safety, deterring crime, rehabilitating the criminal, giving the criminal, giving the criminal [their] just desert, vindicating the law, or restoring the relationship between victim and offender.” For this reason, this essay will discuss the legal contemporary views on the concept of punishment and the theories for justifying punishment for the protection of individuals and the community.
The American criminal justice system consists of a network of separate institutions, which is largely independent of each other. The three separate systems of the criminal justice system are police, courts, and corrections. The police arrest people for breaking the law. The court system “refers to the legal process by which a judgment is pronounced by the court” in which a judge with legal authority makes a decision to inflict punishment or a counter reason not to inflict punishment on the offender. The corrections system enforces the sentence imposed on the
Brauch explains, “Social conditions may influence people for good or bad, but the heart of the problem is the human heart.” Humanity moral and spiritual nature derives from the heart. If humanity does not improve and elevate the heart by revering God, then the human mind becomes determine to commit a crime if their sentence does not process quickly. Those actions result in an unrepentant heart. Phillip E. Johnson in “Human Nature and Criminal Responsibility: The Biblical View Restored” insightfully points out that “man may be born in sin, but he has the capacity to know good from evil and to choose the good.” The decision to choose the right things instead of the wrong things depends on a person’s determination to develop their mind and heart to make ‘good’ decisions for themselves and for society’s