Christ's message of Redemption is the act of saving people from sin and evil. Apparently most government employees believe that their evil acts will be forgiven. It is not just the government, it's man in general. Over the years I've known a number of business persons that claimed to be born again, yet had no conscience of right or wrong.
Yes, Jesus paid the price for our release from sin and its consequences. But, most christens are not christen at all; just because they believe they have been saved does not mean they, in fact, have been saved. Hence, redemption is the problem.
Oh, my.
My friend, can one really believe that redemption is God's to dispense?
No, I seek not Redemption is His eyes. I seek redemption in my own.
Is that not the ultimate office of personal responsibility? While He could redeem me--restore or elevate me to His glory, why would He? He did not commit my errors. He did not commit my harms. To redeem me Himself, without me
first redeeming myself, is a violation of personal responsibility. No. I cannot believe even He would allow me to lie to myself or evade my responsibility for my own harms committed and omitted against others and Him. He cannot possibly not know that it is not His ideas that count the most on this question. He cannot possibly not know that it is my own certainty of harms committed, my own attributions against myself that are the falling short of His glory
in my own eyes.
Both God and I know to a complete certainty
who committed my harms.
Were He to allow me to accept and believe a sufficiency in His redemption in His own eyes
before I redeemed myself, He would be shortchanging me. And,
that I cannot in any way accept--that He would shortchange even one immortal soul.
No. Redemption cannot possibly be His to dispense. He would have to erase from our minds our own experiences--our own harms; and wave a hand of Redemption. I think He is much, much more sophisticated than that. If
I can see beyond a simplistic explanation of Redemption, I know He can.
My money says that at a minimum He offers to Redeem me as a way to encourage me to redeem myself in my own eyes. Failing that, there is no point but to say that He erases my experiences and allows me to pretend I never harmed anyone. No, no. I cannot accept that about God, the Architect of human nature.
I suspect. No, I
hold. That He will not Redeem me in His eyes until
after I redeem myself in my own. To hold otherwise is to say He will allow me to evade, dodge, justify, and rationalize my harms against others and Him. And, since that cannot possibly be recognition of personal causation, it cannot possibly be the road to anywhere but more self lies.
And, if He is anything, He is Truth.