@SethJ You wrote: "@ba, not at all. Deut. is one of G-d's laws. Ezek. is a statement about G-d's justice. Ezek. knew the law. His statement accepts the law and is meant in a way that neither negates/supersedes the law, nor undermines the justice behind the law." But then how do you explain all the gemaras which use a pasuk from Nach to define something in Torah?
@yoel You wrote: "since nobody else addressed this specific question that I can see: Ezekiel was not inspired in the same way as Deuteronomy. The author of Deuteronomy is, depending on the opinion, either Moses - the greatest prophet who ever lived - or G-d Himself. Ezekiel was certainly a great prophet, but obviously not on the level of either of Deuteronomy's possible authors." Does that mean that Yechezkel could contradict something written in the Torah for lack of knowledge? He had nevuah!
@ba, The Mesorah of how to understand the Pesukim in Na"Ch and the Torah do not have roots in Na"Ch. My point is that Monika was making assumptions about how to interpret the Pesukim based on her feelings of morality and definitions of concepts like good and evil and reward and punishment.
