In this post, I consider a question sent in to me by a reader about whether or not God can look
upon sin and evil.
Not exact matches
And then Jesus came upon his disciples and said, «What's this shit I've been hearing about me being a human sacrifice for your sins!!? Who in the goddamned hell came up with that Neanderthal bullshit!!!? What are we, living in the fucking Stone Age!!!!? Blood sacrifice!!!!!!!!!!!?? Are you fucking kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??? Listen, brethren, thou can takest that pathetic, immoral, sadistic, evil, sickening, disgusting pile of Cro - Magnon donkey shit and shove it straight up thy fucking asses!!!&raq
And then Jesus came
upon his disciples
and said, «What's this shit I've been hearing about me being a human sacrifice for your sins!!? Who in the goddamned hell came up with that Neanderthal bullshit!!!? What are we, living in the fucking Stone Age!!!!? Blood sacrifice!!!!!!!!!!!?? Are you fucking kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??? Listen, brethren, thou can takest that pathetic, immoral, sadistic, evil, sickening, disgusting pile of Cro - Magnon donkey shit and shove it straight up thy fucking asses!!!&raq
and said, «What's this shit I've been hearing about me being a human sacrifice for your
sins!!? Who in the goddamned hell came up with that Neanderthal bullshit!!!? What are we, living in the fucking Stone Age!!!!? Blood sacrifice!!!!!!!!!!!?? Are you fucking kidding me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??? Listen, brethren, thou can takest that pathetic, immoral, sadistic,
evil, sickening, disgusting pile of Cro - Magnon donkey shit
and shove it straight up thy fucking asses!!!&raq
and shove it straight up thy fucking asses!!!»
But I think there is some risk that it might be misconstrued so as to obscure certain truths which I believe to be fundamental: that the Passion is the moment at which that complete oneness with the Father which is the unique
and all - pervading characteristic of the life of Jesus is paradoxically manifested; that it is at that moment, above all, that Jesus discloses to us God himself in action; that the judgement passed on Jesus
and the testing brought to bear
upon him are a judgement
and a testing exercised (of course, within the permissive will of God) by
evil men, or, to use mythological language, by the devil;
and that the judgement of God pronounced at Calvary is that which Christ's accepting love passes
upon those men,
and upon ourselves as sharers in their sinfulness, by showing up their
sin in all its hatefulness.
Yet if the record in the Synoptic Gospels is to be trusted, he did not, like Paul, look
upon sin as an enveloping state of
evil resulting from Adam's fall
and corrupting man's whole being.
On the whole, the Latin races have leaned more towards the former way of looking
upon evil, as made up of ills
and sins in the plural, removable in detail; while the Germanic races have tended rather to think of
Sin in the singular,
and with a capital S, as of something ineradicably ingrained in our natural subjectivity,
and never to be removed by any superficial piecemeal operations.
The
evil itself lies in the intention: «The project of the
sin and the reflecting
upon it
and not its execution is the real guilt.»
He called
upon the Church to «repent of the
sins of existing society, cast off the spell of lies protecting our social wrongs, have faith in a higher social order,
and realize in ourselves a new type of Christian manhood which seems to overcome the
evil in the present world, not by withdrawing from the world, but by revolutionizing it.»
Rauschenbusch presumed the solidarity of humankind,
and focused
upon the effects of that solidarity in the transmission of
sin such that each generation is predisposed to
evil.
In this picture redemption of
evil follows from
and depends
upon redemption of the
sin for which the
evil was the punishment.
But even in Genesis 3:14 - 19, God takes the blame for the
evil that comes
upon the world as a result of Adam
and Eve's
sin.
He shows how Original
Sin makes sense when we understand the profound communion and mutual ministry of all creation in Christ, in whom we were constituted in original holiness, upon whom the impact of evil was greatest, and in whom is found healing and purification from s
Sin makes sense when we understand the profound communion
and mutual ministry of all creation in Christ, in whom we were constituted in original holiness,
upon whom the impact of
evil was greatest,
and in whom is found healing
and purification from
sinsin.
«
And they who do not call upon another god with Allah and do not slay the soul, which Allah has forbidden except in the requirements of justice, and (who) do not commit fornication and he who does this shall find a requital of sin; The punishment shall be doubled to him on the day of resurrection, and he shall abide therein in a basement; Except him who repents and believes and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.&raq
And they who do not call
upon another god with Allah
and do not slay the soul, which Allah has forbidden except in the requirements of justice, and (who) do not commit fornication and he who does this shall find a requital of sin; The punishment shall be doubled to him on the day of resurrection, and he shall abide therein in a basement; Except him who repents and believes and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.&raq
and do not slay the soul, which Allah has forbidden except in the requirements of justice,
and (who) do not commit fornication and he who does this shall find a requital of sin; The punishment shall be doubled to him on the day of resurrection, and he shall abide therein in a basement; Except him who repents and believes and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.&raq
and (who) do not commit fornication
and he who does this shall find a requital of sin; The punishment shall be doubled to him on the day of resurrection, and he shall abide therein in a basement; Except him who repents and believes and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.&raq
and he who does this shall find a requital of
sin; The punishment shall be doubled to him on the day of resurrection,
and he shall abide therein in a basement; Except him who repents and believes and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.&raq
and he shall abide therein in a basement; Except him who repents
and believes and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.&raq
and believes
and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the evil deeds to good ones; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.&raq
and does a good deed; so these are they of whom Allah changes the
evil deeds to good ones;
and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.&raq
and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.»