Within the Critical Legal Studies article, equality is understood as justice from a racial, ethnic, religious, and feministic (etc), viewpoints. The main point is that without equality towards a group of people, there is not justice. Equality promotes justice and justice cannot be achieved if there is no equality. For example, during the civil rights movement, the whites were unequal towards the blacks and the only possible way for justice to be served was for equality to be put into practice. They say justice is also following man's laws, and anything that contradicts that is unjust.
On the other hand, the Bible says otherwise. Deuteronomy 10:12-19 says "walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, 13 and to observe the LORD’s commands and decrees that I am giving you today for your own good." We are not supposed to follow the justification of man's laws, but follow the ones God has already given us; observe and live by them for they are for our own good. Furthermore, "This is what the LORD says: Do what is just and right" (Jeremiah 22:3). Going back to Deuteronomy, we are told to do what is just and right in the eyes of the Lord from the moral laws that he has given us. Furthermore, Micah 6:8 tells us "to act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." If we are to love mercy than we must first be willing to humble ourself and accept it. This could go hand in hand with equality and how God wants us to treat each other equally as we would want to be treated, for everyone was created by God and no one is superior to the other. If we view everyone as equal, we would have no problem loving the mercy of others.
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