Sometimes people say that it is reductionist [...] to always talk about Christianity as a courtroom. Life is more than a courtroom, so why on earth would you always want to make everything about justification and exoneration and guilt and verdicts?
And the only response that we have to that is that is how life actually works. If you're not in a courtroom in your mind when it comes to your spouse, making up fake arguments after something has happened that has hurt you, then I can't relate to you at all.
Life is a courtroom. I wish it weren't that way, but we are arguing. We argue with ourselves, we argue with people that aren't there, we argue with parents that are long deceased. We are constantly arguing and trying to justify ourselves.
So that God should choose to work in that framework should be something that we see as a grace. Not that he is limited or somehow caged in by a legal framework, but that human beings are hard-wired for the law, [so] that God would somehow deal with legality is a good thing.
(David Zahl, Good News for People with Big Problems - Session 3 MP3, Cf. Oswald Bayer)
I'd put it slightly differently, but I wanted to note down what he says because I do think there is a lot of truth there.
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