S. FAUSTI - The "eternal life," the fully happy life that man desires as the fulfillment of his humanity, is not the result of a superhuman effort. It is the free gift of the Father of Life that in the Son offers us not only to be called but to be truly His children (1Gv 3: 1). He who believes in the Son and adheres to Him is born from God (1,13), born from the Spirit, partaker of Divine Life, which is the mutual Love between Father and Son. The Words of Jesus to Nicodemus have the intention of operating in us the passage to the new heart, required by law and promised by the prophets, which we see so well described in Philippians 3, where Paul recounts his experience as a man of law ,who enconters the Lord. At the center of the narration there is the person of Jesus, whom Nicodemus, a well-arranged Pharisee, recognizes as Messiah. But who is the Messiah that comes to renew the Alliance and the Temple? What is the "scourge" with which He triumphes over evil? Jesus is ,indeed, the Messiah, but He does not correspond to the expectation of the one who dreams a powerful Messiah who exterminates the wicked and rewards the good persons ... He is instead the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (1,29) The lifted up ,Son of man the Crucified Son of God, who gives us the Love of the Father and makes us children, able to love as we are loved. Jesus is the Messiah who, as crucified, gives us life, that life that the law says but does not gives and that the prophets only promise. The law prescribes what we must do; the prophecy in turn denounces what we do not and announces what God will do for us. Law and prophecy are, respectively, implied request and explicit promise of the Spirit of the Son. Jesus did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets, but for to complete them (Mt 5: 7). The command that He will give us will be both new and old . The novelty lies in the fact that what is ancient as man's desire becomes finally realized. For this will leave us the command of mutual love, full fulfillment of the Law. "God loved the world so much" God has always loved the world, even if the world refuses Him.. Father's Love is free and unreserved: The Son who knows it and lives of it, He testifies it to us from the cross. This verse presents the center of the Gospel of John, which wants to bring us to confess with wonder: "We have acknowledged and believed in the Love that God has for us" For "God is Love" (1 Jh 4,16). Only to this light we can comprehend correctly all the revelation and correct every its interpretation. Why does the Father send the Son? Couldn't He came to become Flesh Himself? He gave us the Son because only in Him, who loves as He is loved, we see our identity as children of the Father. Jesus, being Son, has lived what we are called to live: the "filialism" and the resulting fraternity. He loves us of the same Love the Father has for Him and He assures us that the Father loves us like Him (17,23) with a Love that is before the foundation of the world (17,24).
Salvation is to believe in crucified Jesus, the Son of man risen : He is the Word, light and life of every man, becomed flesh to tell us Father's Absolute Love. In Him it is given us our identity as children and we are what we are. Outside of Him, we are what we aren't, the nothingness of ourselves. For this welcoming Him, the Son, is to find ourselves; refusing Him is to lose ourselves. The Son has the same judgment as the Father. In Him "lifted up” we have the true knowledge of Him and of ourselves, that snake's mouth had taken away from us. Neither salvation nor perdition , are not divine predestination. God has created everything for life and there is not death poison in His creatures, except what we have procured to us by believing to our fears rather than to Him. But if we abandoned Him, source of living water, (Ger2 , 13), He has not abandoned us, He manifested in the greatest and indubitable manner His Love, losing Himself for us. In the abandonment of the Son on the cross, no abandonment is never again abandoned: in every lost the Father sees His Son who, of every perdition, has made the house of the Glory.
S. FAUSTI - The "eternal life," the fully happy life that man desires as the fulfillment of his humanity, is not the result of a superhuman effort. It is the free gift of the Father of Life that in the Son offers us not only to be called but to be truly His children (1Gv 3: 1).
RispondiEliminaHe who believes in the Son and adheres to Him is born from God (1,13), born from the Spirit, partaker of Divine Life, which is the mutual Love between Father and Son. The Words of Jesus to Nicodemus have the intention of operating in us the passage to the new heart, required by law and promised by the prophets, which we see so well described in Philippians 3, where Paul recounts his experience as a man of law ,who enconters the Lord. At the center of the narration there is the person of Jesus, whom Nicodemus, a well-arranged Pharisee, recognizes as Messiah. But who is the Messiah that comes to renew the Alliance and the Temple? What is the "scourge" with which He triumphes over evil? Jesus is ,indeed, the Messiah, but He does not correspond to the expectation of the one who dreams a powerful Messiah who exterminates the wicked and rewards the good persons ... He is instead the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (1,29) The lifted up ,Son of man the Crucified Son of God, who gives us the Love of the Father and makes us children, able to love as we are loved.
Jesus is the Messiah who, as crucified, gives us life, that life that the law says but does not gives and that the prophets only promise. The law prescribes what we must do; the prophecy in turn denounces what we do not and announces what God will do for us. Law and prophecy are, respectively, implied request and explicit promise of the Spirit of the Son.
Jesus did not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets, but for to complete them (Mt 5: 7).
The command that He will give us will be both new and old . The novelty lies in the fact that what is ancient as man's desire becomes finally realized. For this will leave us the command of mutual love, full fulfillment of the Law.
"God loved the world so much" God has always loved the world, even if the world refuses Him.. Father's Love is free and unreserved: The Son who knows it and
lives of it, He testifies it to us from the cross. This verse presents the center of the Gospel of John, which wants to bring us to confess with wonder: "We have acknowledged and believed in the Love that God has for us" For "God is Love" (1 Jh 4,16). Only to this light we can comprehend correctly all the revelation and correct every its interpretation.
Why does the Father send the Son? Couldn't He came to become Flesh Himself? He gave us the Son because only in Him, who loves as He is loved, we see our identity as children of the Father.
Jesus, being Son, has lived what we are called to live: the "filialism" and the resulting fraternity.
He loves us of the same Love the Father has for Him and He assures us that the Father loves us like Him (17,23) with a Love that is before the foundation of the world (17,24).
Salvation is to believe in crucified Jesus, the Son of man risen : He is the Word, light and life of every man, becomed flesh to tell us Father's Absolute Love. In Him it is given us our identity as children and we are what we are.
RispondiEliminaOutside of Him, we are what we aren't, the nothingness of ourselves. For this welcoming Him, the Son, is to find ourselves; refusing Him is to lose ourselves.
The Son has the same judgment as the Father. In Him "lifted up” we have the true knowledge of Him and of ourselves, that snake's mouth had taken away from us.
Neither salvation nor perdition , are not divine predestination. God has created everything for life and there is not death poison in His creatures, except what we have procured to us by believing to our fears rather than to Him. But if we abandoned Him, source of living water, (Ger2 , 13), He has not abandoned us, He manifested in the greatest and indubitable manner His Love, losing Himself for us. In the abandonment of the Son on the cross, no abandonment is never again abandoned: in every lost the Father sees His Son who, of every perdition, has made the house of the Glory.