Any person who has been known that suffering is not justified. However, Christians remember and celebrate a painful fact, the cross of Jesus. Why? Who could please the suffering of Jesus? Does God? What God? Do not lend itself to legitimate cross pains and very abominable human sacrifices?
is sensitive about the value of sacrifice. Not for nothing that this word has been discredited. Think of the sacrifice of generations of slaves who made great civilizations, Greece, Rome ... To our modern minds, the most aberrant of sacrifice has been the ritual of human sacrifice to appease God's wrath and gain its benefits. But the world Modern has been more bloody than any archaic religion. Remember the Holocaust of Jews during World War II, Stalin's crimes or the capitalist exploitation. Sacrifice much forced and unfair!
Christianity has also discredited the word sacrifice. All the sufferings that Christians two thousand years have inflicted on others in the name of Christ - so good that a pope to apologize for them!, Hide the meaning of the cross of Jesus. In this long history, it should be noted an especially serious. During the second millennium and to this day, entered the church a very serious distortion of the meaning of the sacrifice of Christ, God as being offended and fair, would have required the death of his son as a punishment for humanity deserved punishment for his sin. In other words, that God would have saved humanity in exchange for a man to be sacrificed. It would be rare for this macabre image of God has served to justify the unjustifiable: the human suffering.
sense of Christ's sacrifice, however, is exactly the opposite. In keeping with its history of dedication to others, the man who sacrificed his life freely on the cross is God himself who, when he loves he loves with everything and not in part, that does not give anything but itself and in full. The sacrifice of Jesus the man rather than God compensate constitutes delivery of God to compensate, to heal and perform for humanity, the most beloved of his creatures. The whole life of Jesus is not nothing but God's comfort for the man or woman who is suffering, forgiveness for their mistakes, healing their illnesses, solidarity with the innocent victims, in a word, extreme love. The punishment that Jesus suffered on Golgotha \u200b\u200bdoes not come from God but of men. That penalty is the ultimate consequence of human evil, not God. God does not punish. God does not need anyone to be punished or sacrificed to save. God is omnipotent, free love. It is humanity that God has needed that sacrifice for her, she cries in place and instead charge that overwhelms the weight. All without expecting anything to change.
God only likes the love of Jesus and where is our love one another as Jesus has loved us. God gives us Jesus, but not a sadist. Jesus gives us life, but it is not a masochist. God enjoys our deliverance from evil and pain. Enjoy whenever we extend the sacrifice of Jesus, sacrificing parents who have children with better education (not face them out in all), offering forgiveness to enemies (which, sorry to offend, can not however restore), giving poor "until it hurts" (as would the Father Hurtado) or just suffer with the suffering.
How far understand the sacrifice of Jesus? I do not know. But Easter Christians remember and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ crucified: no pain, but the triumph of love over pain, the pain of love that conquers sin.
Posted in Jorge Costadoat Christ for the Fourth Millennium. Seven stories from twenty-one articles , San Pablo, Santiago, 2001, 192pp.
is sensitive about the value of sacrifice. Not for nothing that this word has been discredited. Think of the sacrifice of generations of slaves who made great civilizations, Greece, Rome ... To our modern minds, the most aberrant of sacrifice has been the ritual of human sacrifice to appease God's wrath and gain its benefits. But the world Modern has been more bloody than any archaic religion. Remember the Holocaust of Jews during World War II, Stalin's crimes or the capitalist exploitation. Sacrifice much forced and unfair!
Christianity has also discredited the word sacrifice. All the sufferings that Christians two thousand years have inflicted on others in the name of Christ - so good that a pope to apologize for them!, Hide the meaning of the cross of Jesus. In this long history, it should be noted an especially serious. During the second millennium and to this day, entered the church a very serious distortion of the meaning of the sacrifice of Christ, God as being offended and fair, would have required the death of his son as a punishment for humanity deserved punishment for his sin. In other words, that God would have saved humanity in exchange for a man to be sacrificed. It would be rare for this macabre image of God has served to justify the unjustifiable: the human suffering.
sense of Christ's sacrifice, however, is exactly the opposite. In keeping with its history of dedication to others, the man who sacrificed his life freely on the cross is God himself who, when he loves he loves with everything and not in part, that does not give anything but itself and in full. The sacrifice of Jesus the man rather than God compensate constitutes delivery of God to compensate, to heal and perform for humanity, the most beloved of his creatures. The whole life of Jesus is not nothing but God's comfort for the man or woman who is suffering, forgiveness for their mistakes, healing their illnesses, solidarity with the innocent victims, in a word, extreme love. The punishment that Jesus suffered on Golgotha \u200b\u200bdoes not come from God but of men. That penalty is the ultimate consequence of human evil, not God. God does not punish. God does not need anyone to be punished or sacrificed to save. God is omnipotent, free love. It is humanity that God has needed that sacrifice for her, she cries in place and instead charge that overwhelms the weight. All without expecting anything to change.
God only likes the love of Jesus and where is our love one another as Jesus has loved us. God gives us Jesus, but not a sadist. Jesus gives us life, but it is not a masochist. God enjoys our deliverance from evil and pain. Enjoy whenever we extend the sacrifice of Jesus, sacrificing parents who have children with better education (not face them out in all), offering forgiveness to enemies (which, sorry to offend, can not however restore), giving poor "until it hurts" (as would the Father Hurtado) or just suffer with the suffering.
How far understand the sacrifice of Jesus? I do not know. But Easter Christians remember and celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ crucified: no pain, but the triumph of love over pain, the pain of love that conquers sin.
Posted in Jorge Costadoat Christ for the Fourth Millennium. Seven stories from twenty-one articles , San Pablo, Santiago, 2001, 192pp.
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