Do you think a guilty until proven innocent justice system could ever be a good thing?

JohnB445 said:

Do you think a guilty until proven innocent system could work better and make society safer?

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• Man’s justice deals with effects. God’s justice deals with causes.
• Man sees the behavior. God sees the brokenness that produced it.
• Man punishes the outcome. God heals the root.
• Man tries to control the damage. God transforms the person.
• Man’s justice ends in prisons, labels, and fear. God’s justice ends in restoration, wholeness, and peace.
  Human justice usually reacts to the effects of something that went wrong. God’s justice goes deeper and deals with the cause.
  
  Human justice focuses on managing behavior. God’s justice focuses on restoring what was broken.
  
  One punishes the outcome. The other heals the root.
  
  When I look at Scripture, God’s justice consistently aims to set things right, not just to get even. It’s restorative, not reactive.

RDKirk said:

But all this time, the defendant had been put through both an emotional and financial wringer just to appear with a lawyer in court (easily $10,000) to see the case dismissed within 20 minutes.

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JohnB445 said:

A guilty until proven innocent justice system would ensure all criminals are convicted,

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RamiC said:

The people who want to commit crimes would just plan to avoid being accused in the first place. The prisons would be full of scapegoats, not criminals.

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Firstlightdawn said:

None of this is God's Justice. This just shows what a mess man makes out of the system. One of the biggest complaints in the prison system is the lack of Justice. God does not want to punish people. He wants to redeem and restore them. Of course, there is restitution for the victim. Still, the offender is entitled to Justice with God.

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