is commonly believed that doing good is doing well and who does wrong will go wrong. If the facts say otherwise, if the good times are going bad and ill do well, it is thought that sooner or later, the educated, hardworking, thrifty and good will be rewarded, but the ignorant, the careless, the corrupt spendthrifts and suffer dire consequences. In religions, this mindset is guaranteed by a "god" will punish the behave in an unfair way and reward those who keep His commandments.
The other side of this thinking, however, has subtly to conclude something very serious: the winners are good and bad losers. That is why many believe that infection with the rich, healthy and all those smiles that life can benefit them and approach them and flatter. On the contrary, is so common suspicion of the poor and avoid contact, if they are poor is that they are lazy. In Chile it is still of some victims said "something be done."
Christianity teaches that this logic is wrong. On the cross God was a man who was sentenced to death, looked guilty, but was innocent. If God is identified with Jesus, as Jesus is identified with the losers, the logic breaks another logic behind this disdain for the guilty and veneration for the righteous. The logic of the God of Jesus, is selfless love. Do you understand? Not easily. The mean those that are loved and forgiven by the followers of Jesus, when the eyes of society they seem guilty of his pint of losers.
will say that the resurrection was the reward of the righteous. Yes, if we understand that God rewards Jesus with new life, but in the cross does not punish him or it to those who have crucified. God does not need to condemn some to save others. God can so no one can: to die for sinners and rise again for the innocent. To offer God's forgiveness to sinners Jesus shares the ultimate consequence of sin, death. To vindicate the innocent victims of sin, God raised up Jesus justice for the wrongfully executed. Very different from what is commonly thought, God loves sinners innocent. God knows no punishment. Love, and nothing else.
Does the same then behave well or badly? No way. If the cross, God offered forgiveness to those who landed in her innocent Son that He will not damage would be discharged in a guilty, gain eternal life those who are compassionate toward sinners as He is merciful with them. In contrast, those who are determined to depart from sinners and judge, condemn themselves, because they themselves refuse to enter the circuit of the compassion of God. Hell is a human invention, not divine. God has created just the sky. To love and forgive, God does not need our kindness and you crucify a man. If God wants to save humanity is saved extending the magnanimity of his love with others, but also with himself. If God loves those who do not deserve to be loved, the mission of Christians is to invent a world upside down, a world fit for everyone, not just some. Not authentically Christian holiness is the impeccable, but in mercy. Divine justice does not make irrelevant the human quest for justice, but to fit it in mercy, trains to rescue the poor rather than discard them. Published
If I had to raise a child ... to convey ideas humanity, Ignatian Spirituality Centre, Santiago, 2004.
The other side of this thinking, however, has subtly to conclude something very serious: the winners are good and bad losers. That is why many believe that infection with the rich, healthy and all those smiles that life can benefit them and approach them and flatter. On the contrary, is so common suspicion of the poor and avoid contact, if they are poor is that they are lazy. In Chile it is still of some victims said "something be done."
Christianity teaches that this logic is wrong. On the cross God was a man who was sentenced to death, looked guilty, but was innocent. If God is identified with Jesus, as Jesus is identified with the losers, the logic breaks another logic behind this disdain for the guilty and veneration for the righteous. The logic of the God of Jesus, is selfless love. Do you understand? Not easily. The mean those that are loved and forgiven by the followers of Jesus, when the eyes of society they seem guilty of his pint of losers.
will say that the resurrection was the reward of the righteous. Yes, if we understand that God rewards Jesus with new life, but in the cross does not punish him or it to those who have crucified. God does not need to condemn some to save others. God can so no one can: to die for sinners and rise again for the innocent. To offer God's forgiveness to sinners Jesus shares the ultimate consequence of sin, death. To vindicate the innocent victims of sin, God raised up Jesus justice for the wrongfully executed. Very different from what is commonly thought, God loves sinners innocent. God knows no punishment. Love, and nothing else.
Does the same then behave well or badly? No way. If the cross, God offered forgiveness to those who landed in her innocent Son that He will not damage would be discharged in a guilty, gain eternal life those who are compassionate toward sinners as He is merciful with them. In contrast, those who are determined to depart from sinners and judge, condemn themselves, because they themselves refuse to enter the circuit of the compassion of God. Hell is a human invention, not divine. God has created just the sky. To love and forgive, God does not need our kindness and you crucify a man. If God wants to save humanity is saved extending the magnanimity of his love with others, but also with himself. If God loves those who do not deserve to be loved, the mission of Christians is to invent a world upside down, a world fit for everyone, not just some. Not authentically Christian holiness is the impeccable, but in mercy. Divine justice does not make irrelevant the human quest for justice, but to fit it in mercy, trains to rescue the poor rather than discard them. Published
If I had to raise a child ... to convey ideas humanity, Ignatian Spirituality Centre, Santiago, 2004.
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