| Alanis Morissette – Still Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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@[Grayscale:32580] "God being highly sarcastic - can he really forgive such behaviour so easily?" There are two entirely different words here: "love" and "forgiveness." Love is defined as: "To Will the Good." To love another is "To Will the Good of Another." God, being eternally good, always wills our good. For us to do something sinful has no effect on God's willing our good. To will the good of another includes willing that they flourish, and to even begin to flourish, one must stop sinning. So, God's love for us includes his willing us to embody the good in our own lives. That may be confusing, so let's define evil. Evil has no existence. Evil is a privation; it is the lack of one or more essential goods. Evil, like darkness, is not a thing in and of itself, but instead, a lack of something that actually does exist: the goodness of God. So to love another is to will that they not commit such sins, and willing that is to wish them to be, and be fully, instead of less, and possibly to deprive themselves of everything. Forgiveness is an entirely different thing than love. It has preconditions (not the least of which is that one stop doing that for which one needs to be forgiven, obviously), a necessary disposition (to will the good, or, in other words, to seek forgiveness is to respond to love), and may require that one make some kind of amends (to heal or repair the privation that one is responsible for). Whether or not the artist was being facetious or not I take no stance on, but taken literally the lyrics describe God and his relationship to us quite well. |
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