Mar 5 2021

Pardon

In the Bible of Old Testament, we cannot find word of “Excuse” and “Pardon.” If you are not good, God will punish you, not to excuse.
But, in the New Testament, Jesus came to the world, we can find many words of “Excuse.” Especially Jesus said that if someone hit your right check, you give left check willingly. This was a great pardon better than the philosophy of our Chinese Lao Tse whose famous motto was “Soft conquer strong.”
Jesus’ teaching is great, but for our ordinary people, we feel difficult to do it. When someone does something bad to us, we will hate. It is even difficult for us to forget. That is the human nature even Jesus cannot change us.
But, words of “Excuse’ and “Pardon” can surely bring us benefit and away from trouble and disaster. The problem is that we cannot forget.
Therefore, we have to find a new philosophy of our own from the reality point of view. Since our life time is limited, we have to spend more time to enjoy happiness. Use our time to hate is wrong, but to enjoy our time in happiness is right.

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