It is finished! These momentous words of the Son of God were taken and interpreted by mankind at as the end of the work of redemption, as the crowning act of a propitiatory sacrifice which God offered to earthmen for all their guilt.
Trembling with gratitude, faithful Christians are therefore stirred by the sound of these words and with it deep sigh of relief, feel themselves comfortably protected through them.
However, this feeling has no genuine foundation, but only originates from an empty imagination. In every human soul there always lies more or less hidden this anxious question. How was such a great sacrifice on the part of God possible? Is humanity so precious to Him?
And this anxious question is justified, for it comes from the intuitive perception and is is intended as a warning! The spirit rebels and wishes to speak through the intuitive perception.
Therefore this warning can never be silenced with empty words which hint that God Himself is love and that Divine love remains incomprehensible to mankind!
One seeks to use such words to fill the gaps that arise where true knowledge is lacking.
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Father, forgive them for they know not what they do
who does not know these momentous words which Jesus of Nazareth uttered when he hung on the cross? They are one of the greatest prayers of intercession ever spoken! Clear and explicit! And yet despite this for 2000 years these words have never been understood! They were interpreted one sidedly, and only in this way that appeared to be agreeable to men.
There was not one person to raise his voice and call out their proper meaning in all clearness to mankind, especially to Christians!
But not only that! Every soul stirring even in the earth life of the Son of God was put into a false light by the one sidedness of the transmissions.
It is understandable if the disciples placed at first and foremost all that is personal about their teacher and master, especially when this master was so brutally torn from their midst, although utterly innocent, and exposed to the most terrible suffering and courses mockery and finally put to the most agonizing death.