Sunday, January 27, 2008

In Memoriam Pak Harto (between justice and hope)

Yeah, it's not a new news. Everyone knows it, I'm one of the latest person who knows about the news. One of the issues about him is the unsolved case about corruption. For Christians, we believe there is a final judgement where human cannot escape from his action in world.

People often asked, if God is justice, why there's no justice in this world? Atheist concludes there's no God since there's no justice, there's suffering! Christian worldview is not based on worldly seen things, but based on faith and hope we have in Christ. Christians always have hope, that's why suicide is impossible for Christian. Suicide is done by someone who doesn't have hope in this world.

Christians have both hope in this world and world after death. We do know that injustice in world would not escape from God's punishment. We often heard about faith, hope and love (1 Corinthians 13). These three things are correlated to each other. Faith without hope is not real faith, hope without faith is not true hope, love without faith and hope is not genuine love. When Christians have faith in Christ, he must have hope in God and love to Christ and others. Christians have faith there's always hope in Christ. This is very complicated and I honestly think I cannot explain the relationship between them by words.

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