Easter Sunday
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Scales/Balance
Scales/Balance
perfect symbol for justice and mercy
justice sure
eye for eye,
dollar pay a dollar
but how mercy?
doesnt mercy do away with justice?
w/ eye for eye with repayment?
mercy and justice are both represented by scales
yet scales seem weighted to being a symbol of justice
mercy?
English mercy (payment, mercenary)
mercy covers not just forgiveness, but works of mercy (helping poor, correcting sinners)
misericordia, pity or cancel or dismiss
hurt heart
syn-pathy
cum-passio
All things involving mercy have in common
cum-passio, helping poor, correcting sinners, forgiving
Seeing other as yourself
second half of commandment
If mercy seeing other as self, then if you wronged, see neighbor wronged and scales of justice already balanced
show
justice and mercy meet perfectly
if forgive someone their debt, the painful price of retribution is met, its just met by you, the debt is paid
forgive 100$ and someone pays the debt…you
The scales are the same.
Mercy and justice is the perfect balancing of them
What scales have to do with Holy week and Easter
what does Holy Week, death and Resurrection of God have to do with justice and mercy?
how is it God seeing us as him as mercy requires, for surely God is beyond us?
How are the scales balanced?
State of Adam
Anselm
if God forgives debt with no payment unjust, punishes w/o mercy then unmerciful
God comes
lives our life
truly man, not just pretending, really God were one of us
takes cum passio, syn pathy miseriecordia
sees self as one of us (not as lie but truly)
Anselm
3 days revealed as scale
All this was fulfilled on first day, Good friday the payment and mercy
Middle God rested on Shabbat after this work of recreation was complete
balanced
resurrected on the third day of the first new week and evolution man has ever seen as a new creation
now God is balanced with man in scales, so man is deified in Christ and not subject to death
raised to give the sign of Jonah that this is not just abstract speculation about the scales being balanced
the tiny backwater Jewish religion of a crushed people thru him became what was predicted: faith of the 4 corners of the world replacing the mighteist empire of the world in name and reach as Daniel and Isaiah long foresaw and Jonah symbolized
as scale was finally balanced, the perfectly just penalty of death is now an injustice that we must all pass through as His did in this short little speck of a life we live
and as we have seen God doesnt abandoned his children to death
Scale ending
Man and God have been balanced in the scales of justice and mercy
justice and mercy have kissed on the cross
heaven and Earth is balanced on the victim of the cross
And the fruit to eat from that scale, the fruit nailed to the tree of life, is eternal resurrection.
Notes
Notes
Me
The true light
scales in balance
3 days
day 1
death and passion
day 2
rested
new meaning of God rested on Sabbath
work complete
day 3
resurrected
sign of jonah
Commentators
must follow path of cross - Leo I
evolution -Benedict XVI
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