Forgiveness is the Face of God that Jesus showed us on the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection
As Eden grew more remote from us in both space and time, God lost his face.
God became a faceless God to all but the Jews. He became a featureless blob, a mysterious, inscrutable enigma - a real but anonymous and amorphous presence - incognito - a blank slate - impossible to read. Jesus gave our faceless God a face. He restored features to the face of God.
Jesus released the face of God into the Valley of Tears in a most extraordinary manner. He assumed the starring role in a dramatic demonstration of divinity. A violent collision took place between himself and the evil that we did to him. We tortured and killed him. He suffered and died. The venue of the violent collision was the road from the Crucifixion to the Resurrection. The violent collision was bigger than the Big Bang and larger than CERN'S Large Hadron Collider. It was a smash hit. The violence of the collision illuminated the darkness of our understanding of God in a glorious burst of epiphany. It is the rock to which the wise anchor their understanding of God . Out of the violent collision the face of God appeared.
A face is not a mask that hides but a window that reveals
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Love has many faces. One of them is the face of forgiveness. Jesus gave God the face of forgiveness. Jesus arose from the dead still alive and still in love with us. His love for us did not fade as we tortured him and did not die when we killed him. His love for us survived the evil that we did to him.
Through forgiveness , Jesus made known to us the God who loves us . To know forgiveness is to know God.
As we baptized him in brutal evil, Jesus wore the face of forgiveness
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The brutality of the evil that we did to him makes His forgiveness of us extraordinarily amazing.
Jesus gave our faceless God a face