Tuesday, February 01, 2005
CS Lewis - On Forgiveness - Mere Christianity, Book 3, chap 7
Is forgiveness the most unpopular virtue?
The two-sidedness - everyone thinks is noble and lovely - "high and difficult" except when it is most personal and deep - then it is contemptible to forgive your enemies.
How do we obey to fulfill the condition that we pray " Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us" (Luke 11:4)?
From the Gestapo to myself and back again.
"Love your neighbor as yourself" (matt 22:39)
How do we love ourselves?
Can we transfer that love and forgiveness in our relationship with others
What is the result?
How do we live?
What of punishment of evil in ourselves and others?
Can we be soldiers, prison guards?
The stunning example - if he and German killed each other.
What is the Christian difference. The attitude, but that is the hardest.
The two-sidedness - everyone thinks is noble and lovely - "high and difficult" except when it is most personal and deep - then it is contemptible to forgive your enemies.
How do we obey to fulfill the condition that we pray " Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us" (Luke 11:4)?
From the Gestapo to myself and back again.
"Love your neighbor as yourself" (matt 22:39)
How do we love ourselves?
Can we transfer that love and forgiveness in our relationship with others
What is the result?
How do we live?
What of punishment of evil in ourselves and others?
Can we be soldiers, prison guards?
The stunning example - if he and German killed each other.
What is the Christian difference. The attitude, but that is the hardest.
