Divine Justice in Genesis and Oedipus Divine Justice is the abstract principle by which a higher being assigns merited rewards or punishment based on what is right and wrong. The notion of divine justice a key ingredient in the Old Testaments Book of Genesis as well as in Sophocles? Oedipus the King. The are many differences and similarities between The Book of Genesis and Sophocles? Oedipus the King. The most common similarity between Genesis and …showed first 75 words of 620 total…

…showed last 75 words of 620 total…is used only to show how powerful he is and only pushes the people further away. The concept of divine justice is a major component in all-religious systems, and is used to refer to the monotheistic God that is in Genesis as well as the polytheistic gods of Oedipus. Divine justice played a key role in determining the relationship between deities and humans, the lives of other humans, and the lives the people being punished.