The Eye for an Eye

In the case of Christ, he gets to plead righteous. And he declares you not simply not guilty. That's not, that's way, way beyond that. He declares you righteous, which is completely different. It'd be like if this guy was declared, no, this guy didn't blaspheme God. In fact, he perfectly extolled and worshiped the name of God his whole life. So we always think of an eye for an eye as like this vengeance thing. But what we're prone to do is say like, well,you took my eye now, I'm going to take your head,. This was the basis for legal systems in Mesopotamia. If