Total Forgiveness; Without Amendments

Total Forgiveness; Without Amendments

People who are never satisfied with any proclamation that is supposed to guide and govern their daily movements will always look to amend the original work by others.  How does that seem to fit in with a forgiving edict that should stand the test of time and adherence to a justifiable premise?  

We have always been alerted to the essence of God’s mercy where he always forgives each person who has sinned.  Jesus was emphatic when he mentioned more than once, the second commandment in importance regarding “Love your neighbor as yourself.”   Way too many people seem to twist these words to suit themselves and have distorted the language by making amendments to fit their immediate needs. The parable of the Good Samaritan has gone over the heads of a lot of doubters when the lawyer asked, “Who is my neighbor?”  (LK 10: 25 - 37).

In our sophisticated society and now looking at A I, the idea of amending the thoughts of forgiving anyone who hurts us is a sure way of withholding love.  No sooner do we listen to the spiritual sermon for being forgiving we find a reason to make adjustments to the meaning and insert words that completely turn the issue presented by God and make ourselves a type of god with new understanding to what was really meant in the original text.  

What we have discovered is now with computers guiding our best knowledge of anything spoken or written the Artificial Intelligence (AI) is going to change the very intent of what God meant when he gave the Ten Commandments to Moses and everything that Jesus taught his disciples will become like elected officials voting to make a change or two depending on the majority vote on a previous statute.

Many will ponder this opinion implying that God’s word cannot be changed.  And they are right.  However, it isn’t God that is suggesting to modify his original commandments, which includes the love of neighbor just as we love God himself.  God does not hand out thoughts to mortals that have a clause allowing us to modify everything he has said, to suit the changing forces of new societies.  God never changes his mind or the original mandates that he strictly gave to Abraham and Moses.  His Son, Jesus Christ, is the likeness of the Trinity and from the very beginning when God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.”  (Gn 1: 26).

Again, relying on the Incarnation of Christ, this was not a new intervention of God changing his original rule of forgiving his creatures whom he always loved.  God, in the person of Christ, Savior, was to complete the manner in which the Trinity knew would be necessary to save mankind from their sinful weakness and bring all of us back to him in an eternal home of pure love.  (Gn 12: 1 - 3).  

This is Total Love, without amendments.

Ralph B. Hathaway