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- | ** A look into our History and Future ...** | + | ** A look onto our History and Future ...** |
+ | The biblical view into life and death is a very deep and basic one. The questions are addressed on | ||
+ | a very fundamental level of thought. Do we want injustice, fraud, lies, hatred and ignorance to live? | ||
+ | Do we want all the bad things, pain and suffering, to go on forever? | ||
+ | On the other hand: what about freedom? Does it not bring the freedom to do the wrong thing? Does it | ||
+ | not bring freedom to hurt others, to violate truth or to ignore, to fight, to hate? | ||
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+ | We are in a world, where this freedom exists. We live in a world where suffering is daily reality for | ||
+ | many humans. Also, fraud is reality, hatred, lies, ignorance, physical fight, ... and the injustice which | ||
+ | is linked with all of this. | ||
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+ | The core meaning of sacrifice in the Old Testament has been: injustice cannot live. It needs to die. Its | ||
+ | life has to pass. This was transferred to an animal in ancient times. It is transferred to Jesus, the | ||
+ | perfect human sacrifice, in the New Testament. God himself dies to set injustice a final limit, it has no | ||
+ | right to live forever. Here, in Christ Jesus, freedom and justice come together, in death and resurrection. | ||
+ | Here, at the cross, the sacrifice of the Old Testament, taking up human desire and need to become free of sin | ||
+ | and guilt is realized in God's chosen sacrifice. It opens a door for mankind to live in justice, and | ||
+ | to live free, and to find eternal life. What a story! What insight into history and reality of our life | ||
+ | and our societies on a global scale ... | ||
(Roland Potthast) | (Roland Potthast) | ||
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