justice, God and Les Mis

[martasfic]

Originally published at Faith Seeking Understanding. You can comment here or there.

I’ve also been thinking about Les Mis a lot, specifically the song “Stars.” It really mucks up the Biblical teaching about the law and forgiveness, but does so in a very interesting way. I could almost hear Job’s friends sitting on the rubble trying to explain his suffering in Javert’s words. I also heard entirely too many contemporary Christians in those lyrics.

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