T. 25. VIII. 4 – 8. Jesus: “There is a kind of justice in salvation of which the world knows nothing. You, who know not of justice, still can ask and learn the answer. The justice of the Holy Spirit looks on all in exactly the same way. It is not justice that one should come to lack for what another has.
For that would be but vengeance, no matter what the form it might seem to take. True justice holds that there be no sacrifice from anyone, for if any sacrifice is made, or even asked, it means that ‘sin’ would be preserved and kept. Sacrifice is a payment offered for the cost of sin, but not the total cost. The rest is taken from another, to be laid beside your little payment, ‘to atone’ for all that you would keep, and not give up.
Can this be justice? God knows not of this. But justice does He know, and knows it well. For He is wholly fair to everyone. Vengeance is alien to God’s Mind because He knows only of real justice. To be just is to be fair, and not be vengeful. Fairness and vengeance together would be impossible, for each one contradicts the other and denies that it is real.
It is extremely hard for those who still believe sin meaningful to understand the Holy Spirit’s justice. They must believe He shares their own confusion, and cannot avoid the vengeance that their own belief in justice must entail. And so they actually fear the Holy Spirit, and perceive the ‘wrath of God’ in Him. Nor can they trust Him not to strike them dead with lightning bolts torn from the ‘fires of Heaven’ by God’s Own angry Hand. They must believe that Heaven is hell by another name, and are therefore afraid of love. And deep suspicion and the chill of fear comes over them when they are told that they have never sinned. Their world depends on sin’s stability and permanence.
Yet justice cannot punish even those who ask for punishment, as long as they have a Judge Who knows they are wholly innocent in truth. In justice He is bound to set them free, and give them all the honor they deserve and have denied themselves, if but because they are not being fair, and cannot understand that they are innocent.”