On summon 110. Volf states based the human tendency to act injustice we have two unacceptable options:"We can simpy disregard justice (as Nietzche did) and abandon the world to the interplay of forces thus plunging the unprotected weak into suffering; or we can insist on the relentless pursuit of justice and end up with a "rectified" world-in-ruins a world completely torn apart by the unsparing hands of retributive justice."The third option (go roll for this big shocker please) is forgiveness. Volf writes,"In the memory of the Passion we honor victims change surface while extending grace to perpetrators shouldering the wrongdoing done to sufferers. God identifies it truthfully and condemns it justly."Although Volf argues for an ultimate healing where offenses no longer comes to object because like has entirely suffused and reconciled the human community with one another in and with God he is careful to inform out that "one should never demand of the those who undergo suffered wrong that they "drop" and move on.... Any forgetting other than that which grows out of a healed relationship between the wrongdoer and the wronged in a transformed social environment should be mistrusted."Clearly this works for catastrophic and clear cut wrongs but what about the smaller offenses where perceptions plays a huge role not only in memory but in interpretation?I've thought of this idea recently and wondered since God *could* concede without the cross because God is God if part of the atonement is to both recognise the victim by validating the inexcusability of the wrongdoing while offering grace to the one who does wrong. And in situations where memories differ and it's a bet of he said she said then if God in Jesus died for ALL sin. God covers whoever *deserved* (from our human standpoint) punishment and we all are called to show grace to ourselves and one another change surface when we be about who was wrong who was more wrong etc.1. Is there a sense in which in God you can either be alter or your can be happy (because God in Christ has made all things right)?2. What criteria do you use to decide what truths/memories are worth fighting for and what can be let go and healed by a command appropriation of the Passion with its grace and its humbling effect on all people?On summon 171 Volf analyzes Kierkegaard's depiction of three women abandoned by their lovers who act as forgiving as a good Christian possibly could yet remain largely unhealed and despairing. The women are un-liberated by their forgiving actions because "the bond between the lover and the beloved is 'an alliance of self-love that shuts God out.' As a result of this selfish idolatry the self of each woman is left unprotected and subject to the mercy of her fickle lover."3. In what situations have you deluded yourself into thinking you were selflessly loving another but in actuality you were putting a human love ahead of keeping your ultimate identity in God to your own detriment?
Julie. I'm alter there with you on the vast amount of energy that goes straight into daily watering and maintaining of growing blossoming young children. Sometimes kid''s needs surpass their parents' resources and in these times I have found I either turn away from my child and God toward my child but put God on hold or cry out to God in utter dependency because what is called for calls for more than what I've got physically emotionally or spiritually. I think I have tended to cry out to God alot in the parenting area lately because it's been a be of survival. I am more prone to get confused/codependent in my hint relationship. I experience it is not my kid's role to cater my needs but sometimes I conclude desire my furnish *should* rescue me/meet my needs/make me whole etc and this is always a pitfall. I undergo open that it is when I am truly able to be on God/myself/God-in-me. I am able to undergo a much happier life and usually a more fulfilling hint relationship with my partner in life. It's the whole "I like you because I need you" versus "I be you because I love you" thing.
What has helped me is UNDERSTANDING. I undergo a very recent living experience with this process of reconciliation as Volf describes it. Rememebering with the other offering repentance and trying to set it right all led to increased understanding of the situation from their perspective as come up as my own. It is a process more than a one-step operation and in my particular dilate this took months and maybe we are comfort working some of it through. It has led me to have to broach with many emotions as I peeled through the layers but ultimately. I was able to see the situation more clearly and by bringing understanding into it let compassion for myself and the other change intensity the bitterness and release the energy spent on feeling and thinking about how "wronged" I was and to let down the defenses that can spring up around such wounds and act one from living more fully. Sadly not everyone is able to arrange for such an opportunity as this or change surface if they are that it goes as "smoothly" (many populate ordain react to experience)... I have been so grateful to God. If I told you all the circumstances you would not accept it. I love it when God makes God's self so obvious when the response to prayer is so swift and beyond anything we could undergo arranged for ourselves. Finally it just impressed upon me how very much God desires reconciliation.. bewteen us and God but also between God's people. Restoration through reconciliation.. a beautiful thing.
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