The
Christian propagandists make the wild boast that there is nothing in
the history of mankind to
compare with the merciful and
forgiving cry of Jesus (pbuh) on the cross ... "Father, forgive
them, for they
know not what they do." Luke 23:34
Amazing
as it may sound, of the four writers of the Canonical Gospels, only
St. Luke was inspired by the Holy
ghost (?) to pen these words.
The other three - Matthew, Mark and John never heard these words or
they felt them
to be too insipid or not important enough for recording. St. Luke
was not even one of the twelve
disciples selected by Jesus
(pbuh). According to the revisers of the Revised Standard Version
(RSV) of the Bible,
these words are not in the most ancient manuscripts which by
implication means that they are an
interpolation.
In "The New King James Version," (Copyrighted by the Thomas
Nelson Publishers inr 1984), we are told that
these words are "not in the
original text" of the Greek manuscripts of St. Luke. In other
words they have been
fabricated by some pious
gentleman. Although the quotation is unauthentic, we will still
entertain it because it
demonstrates great piety of
loving one's enemies and of unsurpassed forgiveness as preached by
the Master himself.
For
forgiveness to be of any worth, the forgiver must be in a position to
forgive. If the victim of injustice is still
in the clutches of his enemies;
in that helpless position and he would cry out, "I FORGIVE YOU!"
it would be
meaningless. But if the
aggrieved party had turned the tables on his enemies and was in a
position of taking
revenge or exact retribution, and
yet say "I forgive you!", only then would it mean
something!
To Be Continued....
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