Balancing the Scale

Today we are going to talk about balancing the scale. What do I mean? We are talking about “the steelyard,” the measuring scale, we all carry around within us, by which we measure justice, fairness, and equity. We aren't talking about a blindfolded woman holding scales and a sword. We are talking about fair play, forgiveness, pardon, lenience, grace and mercy.

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Music
Fresh Fallen Snow
Chris Haugen
Downloaded from YouTube's Audio Library
https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music?nv=1

Man weighing bananas
By Anna Frodesiak - Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17526749

Economic Balance Green Screen Animation
"Cactu-ss animation"
Licence "free to use."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_GnzSZ4cJs

Making Steelyard
觅器米奇 Mickey
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJOYFkPJwcg

Steelyard of two graduated scales
thang010146
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpIalioR33E

Old two pan balance (white weights)
By Nikodem Nijaki - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16923608

Weights for scales
By KingaNBM - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45684480

By The original uploader was Snowmanradio at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2987846

Side view of sitting Asian elephant
By Basile Morin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81754720

By Niels Larsen Stevns - Own work (photo: Gunnar Bach Pedersen) (Randers Museum of Art, Randers, Denmark), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1428023

By James Tissot - http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4532/The_Pharisee_and_the_Publican_%28Le_pharisien_et_le_publicain%29, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10631555

Michelangelo - Creation of Adam (cropped)
By Michelangelo - See below., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=71427942

The Flagellation of Christ By Peter Paul Rubens - http://www.aiwaz.net/uploads/gallery/flagellation-of-christ-3728.jpg, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3954735

Christ between the two murderers, the ‘coup de lance’
By Peter Paul Rubens - The Yorck Project (2002) 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei (DVD-ROM), distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH. ISBN: 3936122202., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=158554

Descent from the Cross
By Peter Paul Rubens - Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15417481

International Conference on Christian Persecution
By Elekes Andor - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=84556220