Vicarious Atonement or Redemption?

  • 2019

The Vicarious Atonement

Many young people live as if their parents had all the obligations to them, but not them to their parents.

They hope that their parents not only forgive them for all disrespects but also reward them by giving them much more. How many times do mothers sacrifice themselves for children, even if they don't deserve it? Many sacrifices of mothers are forms of vicarious atonement: pay for the faults of the children.

In Bulwer Lytton's Zanoni novel, reference is made to a dying old man who is robbed by his son.

The old man realizes that his son is looting the room and asks him from his bed:

What do you do?

and the astonished son answers:

Are you alive! The poison has not taken effect?

The young man fails to kill the old man, because he runs away when he realizes that Master Zanoni was entering the room.

The boy had been adopted by the old man, who raised him following the theories of the French Revolution.

Unfortunately, he confused benevolence with his exaggerated sensitivity.

The old man had been greedy with himself to ensure a luxurious life for his son and now he did not understand how he had become so depraved.

The old man had always justified his son's malicious behavior with the theories of freedom, equality and fraternity that were very poorly understood and worse applied.

Zanoni talked with the old man and explained that this philosophy of education was the cause of his son's crimes.

The old man had been greedy with himself to ensure a luxurious life for his son and now he did not understand how he had become so depraved.

Travel now and pay later

Many times we want to believe that all beings are good all the time and that if they do wrong it is because social conditions demand it.

We want to believe that nobody intends to do wrong and, if he does, he will feel guilty and ask God and his neighbors for forgiveness. This is a children's story.

The problem is that we only develop our character, to the extent that we are responsible . But we do not grow in those areas of which we do not want to mature. There are those who only mature by the suffering received as a result of their actions .

The following story can clarify:

A man, who had been a member of very different religions, goes one day to talk to a Catholic priest and tells him that he has decided to stay in that religion and become a Catholic.

The priest asks him why he made that decision and the man answers:

Because you have the travel system now and pay later. I can commit all the sins I want in this world and I will pay them after I die.

This man did not understand the meaning of the forgiveness of sins. What is the forgiveness of sins?

The present is our responsibility

If we are not responsible now, we will never be responsible, because the only time we can do something is NOW. By not taking responsibility, we seek that our parents assure us of our existence, or friends or political party, or the State. In the end someone has to pay for us.

We are looking for a job that does not require us much, but in which we can stay a lifetime and retire with a good salary.

We do not want to risk creating our own company that makes us independent, because that requires us to pay attention to the business. We do not want to have worries.

We want the travel system now and pay later, or better yet, for another to pay for us.

We want the travel system now and pay later, or better yet, for another to pay for us.

have another pay for us

How nice it is for another to study and we copy.

Let another work and appropriate our effort.

How good it is to commit a crime and blame another.

How good it is to live by deceiving others for our benefit.

How good it is to commit all the sins we want and for a priest to forgive us, so we are bleached and can return to our disorderly life.

How good it is that if God bothers us, his son will bear our sins and we will remain irresponsible.

The Expiatory Goat

Vicarious Atonement is that a mediator pays the debts of another or pays for the crime of another.

In some religions, one way to pay the blame is to sacrifice an animal, for example a goat, so that God feels compensated.

Dr. Anna Bonus Kingsford refers to the mistake of who is offered as a scapegoat, with a story that we have adapted for this publication.

A school boy steals the teacher's money. The teacher is shocked.

He cannot believe that one of his students has done that.

The teacher's daughter has seen the boy stealing, but thinks:

If my mother finds out, they will expel him from school .

For this reason, the girl decides to take responsibility and tells her mother that it was she who took the money and spent it on candy.

He knows that he will be punished at home for a crime that another committed. But it has saved the delinquent child.

This girl has made a vicarious atonement: she has offered herself as a scapegoat.

The scapegoat: In some religions, one way to pay the blame is to sacrifice an animal, for example a goat, so that God feels compensated.

Do we agree that the innocent pay for the guilty?

Will this boy not steal again when he sees that the girl paid for his crime?

Will the child steal again when he sees that his theft has no consequences for him?

If someone has a tendency to be a criminal and another pays for him, it is very possible that he thinks that the robbery went well, but that for the next time he will have to do better.

When a criminal is caught by the police, it is not said I deserve it for being bad, what he says is: must run faster .

If we learn that others must pay for our debts and for our mistakes, what we are learning is to be despots.

Love is redeeming

There is a big difference between vicarious atonement and redemption . To redeem is to liberate.

It is true that we must love our enemies . This commandment makes the big difference between the world before Christ and the world after him. But this proposal of love should not be confused with teaching others to be irresponsible.

Love the one who is unfair, but not his injustice . To love is to give an opportunity to the one who commits a foul. If that person takes responsibility, he is saved thanks to his own effort. However, the decision will always be yours.

To love is to give opportunity to those who are willing to amend themselves. If a thief has no purpose of amending itself, it is best to tell our friends and our neighbors about who that person is.

God's love saves us from guilt because guilt prevents us from learning and growing . Redemption gives us support to free ourselves, but it does not free us from our responsibility. However, God will not grow for us. He is not going to do our job.

If we want to be forgiven we must forgive. To love is not to allow us to be harmed . To love is not to make others irresponsible. Love is to make ourselves responsible and demand responsibility towards others.

We can only help who wants to redeem.

God's love saves us from guilt because guilt prevents us from learning and growing.

Love to ourselves

We must be demanding with ourselves, but with love. We will not be condescending to our defects. If we have undesirable thoughts, we must put them aside and feed positive thoughts.

If we have negative feelings, we must modify them with the help of positive thoughts and focus on what we love.

If our actions are negative, we must act in harmony with our positive thoughts and feelings.

We redeem ourselves for love and suffering. In love we are already aware and in the need to avoid suffering we develop love.

What to do with our defects?

First recognize those defects . We have them and we have identified with them. That's why it seems that they belong to us.

For example, if we have charged someone more than they should, we must accept that we are abusers. We should not make excuses, saying Who sends him to be silly?

The next thing is to avoid being with people who justify that attitude of cunning and deception.

Also, get away from situations where we can take advantage of another as we know we have a tendency to do so.

What will help us more: being altruistic. Give in situations where we expect nothing in return.

In the end, we can always choose between making others pay our debts or work to free ourselves from our defects and develop our character .

In the end, we can always choose between making others pay our debts or work to free ourselves from our defects and develop our character!

Link suggestions

Unconditional Love and Judeo-Christian tradition

Fears in the stages of life - by Roberto Pérez - Comments by Gisela S.

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REFERENCES

Anna Bonus Kingsford Clothed With The Sun ( T he chapter XXIX studies the vicarious atonement)

Bulwer Lytton Zanoni Luis Cárcamo editor

Author: José Contreras. Student of Karma and Reincarnation issues. Editor in the big family of hermandadblanca.org

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