Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 30
30 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction ‘Son’? This in itself constitutes a mockery of justice. We are born attuned to the attributes of God. He so declares in the Holy Bible: Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness’. (Genesis 1:26) On the same subject in the Holy Quran He says: …And follow the nature made by Allah–the nature in which He has created mankind… (The Holy Quran 30:31) This tenet, common to Christian and Muslims alike, requires that human conscience be the best reflective mirror of God’s conduct in a given situation. It is a matter of every day experience with us that many a time we forgive without having violated the sense of justice in the least. If we are wronged personally, then in respect of the crime committed against us we can go to any length in forgiveness. If a child hurts his parents by being disobedient or by causing damage to some precious household article, or by earning them a bad name, he has sinned against them. His parents may forgive him without their conscience pricking them or blaming them for having violated the sense of justice. But if their child destroys the property of their neighbour, or injures the child of another person, how could they decide to forgive the child for causing suffering to others? It would be deemed an act of injustice even according to their own consciences if they did so.