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Paulo da Silva Neto Sobrinho |
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After all, does
God forgive?
(Part 2 and
final)
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“His Love
endures
forever.” (Psalm
136)
Here is the
final part of
the comment made
by Kardec in
Chapter V of The
Gospel According
to Spiritism,
about the causes
of the current
afflictions:
"Hence it
follows that, in
small things as
in great, the
man is always
punished for
what he has
sinned. The
sufferings
arising from sin
are you a
warning that
poorly made.
Give him the
experience, do
you feel the
difference
between good and
evil and the
need to improve
to in future
avoid what gave
him a source of
bitterness,
without which
there would be
no reason for
that is morally
improving .
Confident of
impunity, retard
their progress
and consequently
their future
happiness.
"[...] (KARDEC,
2007c, p.
106-107.) (our
emphasis)
Note, dear
reader, that
Kardec is
categorical in
saying that God
"does not leave
unpunished any
deviation" and
that "there is
something
missing, however
slight it may
be, any
violation of its
law, which does
not involve
compelling and
inevitable
consequences",
the which, we
believe,
demolishes any
belief in a
forgiving pure
and simple, of
which nothing
remains payable
for violations
of any of the
divine laws.
Yet in The
Gospel According
to Spiritism, in
Chapter X -
Blessed are the
merciful, now
transcribe the
following
excerpt from the
instruction of
the spirit John,
bishop of
Bordeaux:
"That is what
you are asking
the Lord, when
you beg for your
forgiveness? It
is only the
forgetfulness of
your sins?
Forgetting that
you leave
nothing on,
because if
God were limited
to forget your
sins, He does
not punish, it
is exact, but
neither reward.
The reward can
not be right
that the award
was not made,
nor, even less,
the evil that is
practiced there,
although that
was hardly
forgotten.
Asking Him to
forgive your
misconceptions,
you ask him what
is the favor of
his graces, not
to repeat them,
is the force
that you need to
go down other
paths, the
submission and
love, in which
you will be able
to join the
repair and
repentance.
"(KARDEC, 2007c,
p. 189-190.) (our
emphasis)
Forgiveness, as
a request of
grace to no more
backslide, is
the only sense
that if we
insist on the
hypothesis that
God really
forgives, that
is, it only
reveals our
faults, in as
far as we repair
them: either by
love or by pain.
To complete our
reasoning let's
see what Kardec
said in Heaven
and Hell, about
the penal code
of the future
life, which is
directly related
to our subject:
“O
arrependimento,
conquanto seja o
primeiro passo
para a
regeneração, não
basta por si só;
são precisas a
expiação
e a
reparação.
Repentance,
atonement and
reparation
therefore
constitute three
conditions
needed to erase
the traces of a
fault and its
consequences.
Repentance
softens the
bitter taste of
atonement,
paving the way
for the hope of
rehabilitation,
only the
repair, however,
can negate the
effect
destroying its
cause.
Otherwise, the
forgiveness
would be a
blessing, not a
cancellation.
"(KARDEC, 2007d,
p. 101.) (our
emphasis)
Just as has been
said before. If,
in any way, we
have to "pay",
so in practice
there is not
even the
forgiveness of
God, in the
sense that it is
commonly
believed,
illustrated in
the example we
gave up with the
story of Raul,
the
pharmaceutical.
And while we're
in the book
Heaven and Hell
in hand, we'll
transcribe some
more passages,
pinched here and
there, the
considerations
of Allan Kardec,
with respect to
the penal code
of the future
life:
There is not a
single
imperfection of
the soul that no
matter dire and
inevitable
consequences,
as there is not
one good quality
that is not the
source of a
enjoyment. (p.
98)
Being infinite
the justice of
God, good and
evil are
carefully
considered,
and no one
action, one
thought bad that
has not fatal
consequences,
as no single
meritorious
action, one
smooth movement
of the soul that
is lost, even
for the most
perverse, so
that such
actions
constitute a
beginning of
progress.
(p. 99)
There is no
absolute rule,
nor uniform as
to the nature
and duration of
punishment: - is
the only general
law that will
punish every
fault, and will
reward every
meritorious act,
according to its
value.
(p. 100)
The only way to
avoid or
mitigate the
future
consequences of
a lack, is in
the repair it,
undoing it in
the present. The
more we delay in
repairing a
fault, the more
painful and
severe will be
in the future
the
consequences.
(p. 106).
Sure, God's
mercy is
infinite, but it
is not blind.
The guilty that
it reaches not
be discharged,
and while there
met to justice,
suffers the
consequences of
their mistakes.
For infinite
mercy, we should
be that God is
not inexorable,
always leaving
viable the path
of redemption.
(p. 107)
To each
according to his
works, in heaven
and on earth: -
that is the Law
of Divine
Justice.
(p. 109).
It is evident in
all these
excerpts, that
"without
forgiveness",
we will suffer
the consequences
of our unhappy
actions.
Conclusion
We entirely
agree with the
prophet Isaiah
when he said:
"[...] if you
forgive the
wicked, he not
learn
righteousness
in the land of
uprightness he
will surrender
to evil and not
see the majesty
of the Lord."
(Isaiah 26.9 to
10.)
Likely Paul, the
apostle of the
Gentiles, also
understood the
same way that we
are putting:
"Make no
mistake, because
God is not
mocked: each
one will be reap
what we have
sown." (Gal.
6.7).
Continuing
citing the
Bible, we have
one more step to
justify our
thinking, which
is:
Naum 1.3: "The
Lord is patient,
and great in
power. The
Lord will never
let someone go
unpunished.
[...] ".
Dear reader, if
"the Lord never
lets anyone go
unpunished",
hence we can
conclude that he
will never
forgive, but
we will do
everything to
correct and
teach, as is
said in this
step:
Ecclesiasticus
18.12: "The
mercy of man is
for his
neighbor, but
the Lord's mercy
is for all
living beings.
He chastises,
corrects,
teaches and
leads, as a
shepherd leads
his flock."
A true shepherd,
loves all his
sheep, the ever
mistreats, does
everything to
correct them,
teaching them
what he thinks
is good for
them.
Andre Luiz
(spirit), by the
psychographics
of Waldo Vieira
said: "God is
Sovereign
Equity, does not
punish nor
forgive, but
be conscious to
himself utters
sentences of
acquittal or
guilt before the
Divine Laws."
(XAVIER and
VIEIRA, 2006, p.
190.) (our
emphasis)
In analyzing the
text, where that
phrase, the
staff of
Spiritist Moment
concludes:
"Neither
punishment, not
forgiveness.
God does not
punish because
its laws are to
love, forgive
and not because
never offends."(Www.momentoespirita.com.br)
(our emphasis).
In a message
that was passed
on for
evaluation
dictated by the
spirit Silas,
through the
medium of
psychographics
Keywison F.
Braga (Divinópolis,
MG), transcribe
the following
passage:
[...] God
must not forgive
mistakes,
because it does
not carry anger
nor sorrow, He
has no pride,
not offended,
therefore the
need for
forgiveness is
only the
inferior beings
that deflagrate
from the
mistakes that
even commit.
Forgiveness is
the act of
relieving guilt
of others
without having
to correct it;
through
difficulties in
the creator
specifies the
use of the
corrigendum, not
for forgiveness,
but by love.
[...] (Braga,
2012) (our
emphasis).
Confirm what was
said in the
immediately
preceding
paragraph.
Gandhi
(1869-1948),
according to the
writer Sergio
Biagi Gregorio
(1946 -), "when
asked if he had
forgiven
someone, he
simply said he
had never
forgiven anyone,
because I never
felt offended.
If he was
offended, he had
nothing to
forgive.
"(GREGORY,
2007). So, with
much stronger
reason, we
reaffirm with
absolute
conviction that
God's infinite
love,
unforgiving,
because never
offends.
Given all that
we expose, we
can not change
their minds,
indeed, now,
more than ever,
we believe we
are, yes,
according to the
doctrinal
principles
touted by
Spiritism, but
we know that our
opinion may
still not be
accepted, no
problem, because
we do not
believe owners
of the truth,
but only a
finder of it.
References:
BRAGA, K. F.
Dawn of
Blessings.
2012.
KARDEC, A.
Spiritist
Magazine 1859.
Araras, SP: IDE,
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KARDEC, A.
Heaven and Hell.
Rio de Janeiro:
FEB, 2007d.
KARDEC, A.
The Gospel
According to
Spiritism.
Rio de Janeiro:
FEB, 2007c.
XAVIER, F. C. e
VIEIRA,W. The
Spirit of Truth.
Rio de Janeiro:
FEB, 2006.
SPIRITIST MOMENT.
Not punishment,
not forgiveness.
http://www.momento.com.br
GREGÓRIO, S. B.
Blessed are
the merciful
in;
http://www.ceismael.com.br/artigo/bem-aventurados-misericordiosos.htm
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