Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 35
Sin and Atonement 35 the Father nor Jesus as thought of this. Look how Jesus’ as holy, lovable reality is unfortunately transformed into a bizarre and unbelievable myth. Justice and Forgiveness The Christian philosophy of Crime and Punishment is not only utterly confusing for simple unprejudiced human intellect, but also raises many other relevant questions which are no less per- plexing. The philosophy of relationship between justice and forgiveness, as maintained by the Christian philosophy of Atone- ment, attempts to explain why God Himself could not forgive. It is dependant entirely on an erroneous and arbitrary concept of justice, which takes it for granted that justice and forgiveness can never go hand in hand. That being so, why does the New Testa- ment place so much emphasis on forgiveness when the question of human relationships is discussed? I have never read in any divine scriptures of any world religion a teaching that leans more one sidedly, and more overly emphasises the role of forgiveness. What a fantastic contrast with the traditional emphasis on justice found in Judaic teachings. An eye for an eye; a tooth for a tooth. That is justice—pure, simple and unattenuated. What a dramatic departure from this to the Christian teaching of turning the other cheek if slapped on one. Who gave the latter teaching which is against the earlier teachings of the Torah? Was the first teaching of the Torah, one is left wondering, a teaching by God the Father as against the diametrically opposed teaching of the New Testa- ment, a teaching by Christ as the ‘Divine Son’? If so, why did the