Monday, April 29, 2002

I have found a little about Christian forgiveness. It offers forgiveness for our sin, in the shape of Jesus. There is a sense in which believing in Jesus, absolves us from the sin of being human. It seems so violent and final, that God would send his/her/its own 'son' as a means whereby its own creation : humans, can be free to live again without the sin of humanity.

On the other hand, Jesus offers a clean slate to those who enter into faith. Thus one can feel a little more secure about the afterlife?? IS this true? Muslims don't have this option. I mean you are never sure as a Muslim, if you are going to be destined for paradise. Muslims exist in a mal-du-present, they have to cleanse themselves constantly of the current context in which they are by both physically and spiritually.

However there is a conditionality in Christian justice, one must pay for sin. Thus, Jesus pays the large part, and therefore we must let Jesus in before we can be free! Is this conditionality the same thing, which has driven colonialism? The civilising mission!

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