What do you have in mind when you say “godly people”?
The qualifications I want for judges are honest, intelligent, benevolent, commonsensical, and conscientious. (Knowing the law is implied by the other qualities since an intelligent, benevolent, conscientious person wouldn’t take a job as a judge without knowing the law.)
Godly isn’t on the list because I wouldn’t trust judges who were chosen for godliness to be fair to non-godly people.
Godly isn’t on the list because I wouldn’t trust judges who were chosen for godliness to be fair to non-godly people.
Then you’re using a different definition of “godly” from the one I use.
The qualifications I want for judges are honest, intelligent, benevolent, commonsensical, and conscientious.
Part but not all of my definition of “godly”. (Actually, intelligent and commonsensical aren’t part of it. So maybe judges should be godly, intelligent and commonsensical.)
What do you have in mind when you say “godly people”?
The qualifications I want for judges are honest, intelligent, benevolent, commonsensical, and conscientious. (Knowing the law is implied by the other qualities since an intelligent, benevolent, conscientious person wouldn’t take a job as a judge without knowing the law.)
Godly isn’t on the list because I wouldn’t trust judges who were chosen for godliness to be fair to non-godly people.
To be fair, many people who consider “godliness” to be a virtue include “benevolent and conscientious” in the definition.
Then you’re using a different definition of “godly” from the one I use.
Part but not all of my definition of “godly”. (Actually, intelligent and commonsensical aren’t part of it. So maybe judges should be godly, intelligent and commonsensical.)
How would you identify godliness for the purpose of choosing judges?