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The Inscrutable Question: Review: 1 John 4:19 & Mark 12:28-31: Two Tandem Concepts; Composites of Divine Love, Rom 5:8

18.	Consequently the love of God can be understood by defining its composites.  Divine righteousness establishes the principles and standards by which love operates.  
1)	A principle is a fundamental law that establishes the standard by which truth is identified.
2)	These principles and standards find their source in the love of God and are backed by His sovereign authority.  
3)	Truth is a transcendent fundamental reality based on these eternal principles and standards.  They are absolute, immutable, and unalterable.
19.	Therefore, divine righteousness is the point of reference for what God approves or condemns.
20.	Divine justice is the function of divine love.  Therefore, justice is the source of blessing or judgment based on one’s compliance or noncompliance with divine righteousness.
21.	What righteousness approves justice blesses.  What righteousness condemns, justice punishes.
22.	Thus, righteousness and justice maintain the integrity of divine love by administering jurisprudence over the thoughts, decisions, and actions that are produced by human free will.

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