An audience usually sees her being nice to the girl at the end as a means to forgive her, but that does not mean she was redeemed. From the point of view of anybody in the story if they knew everything that she did and how she did it, they would not choose to forgive her.
She never made up for the crimes she committed or even confessed to them, she only stopped doing it which is not enough to get her redeemed. On the other hand, JD tries to make up for what happened by blowing up himself and the school. In the end, he only blows himself up, which is his own way of showing pennace. He does not necessarily get a free pass on his actions, but because he did not have the same understanding of the situation as a mentally sane person would have, his form of self-sacrifice can be accepted as redemption.
With that being said, the usual audience tends not to see this and does not forgive him at the end of the movie because what he did was wrong and in cold blood. Their perspective is that he is a crazy person who could never be redeemed for actions as treacherous as murder. If a person does not believe they have anything to be redeemed for, it will be difficult for them to earn redemption.
White Male Privilege — A Conversation is a narrative written from two conversational standpoints — a bystanding woman and a white male who believes he is not guilty of exercising his white male privilege.
As the woman describes, he walked in every single day with his confident walk that tells you he knows he belongs there. He makes small, snarky comments that get on the nerves of people who were not born like him, and one day he stepped on the toes of somebody who was not going to let him get away with it.
They almost fought, but they ended up settling it silently. As this article states;. How could I possibly suck power from a group of people who clearly knew so much more than me about the subject matter at hand? This could be found to be false considering the recollection of the actions as described by Jodi, the woman who witnessed these events, states that the way he entered the room showed that he thought he was so much higher than any of the people.
What he does not realize, is while he was able to ignore the situation and leave it in the past, the people witnessing it and whom it had happened to were not going to forget how superior he acted. Their perspective is that he was acting self-entitled based on the color of his skin and how he has been treated in the past. His perspective, however, is that he was just being himself and was not able to find anything in this situation that he would need to be redeemed from.
This ignorance is the very reason he cannot be redeemed; once he understands the perspective of the other people in the situation with him he will finally be able to understand why he needs to earn their forgiveness and come back from his mistakes. Over all, those who act as if they are entitled are suffering from a great deal of ignorance; the majority of white males are not aware that they act this way, and have been benefitting from their skin color and gender their whole life so they have no idea when they are supposed to be apologetic for it.
This still does not make an excuse; any white male who acts out in this privilege needs to make amends for their wrongdoings, regardless of whether or not they understand it, in order to be redeemed just like the rest of us would have to. It is hard for a white man to redeem himself from this type of a situation because he happens to be so ignorant as to what he had done. Rather than trying to understand and humble themselves to the other party, they go to other alternatives such as blaming the victim or acting as if it never happened.
In the minds of these types of offenders, they can push the blame away and never feel any guilt about it. An apology does not make it better but doing anything that is possible to earn their forgiveness, such as taking responsibility and serving time for their wrongdoings, is much better than pretending it never happened. If only it was possible to reset gender and race stereotypes when it comes to harming others and just view everything through the eye of justice; it would be a whole lot easier than analyzing perspectives in trying to come to the most fair and conclusive answer.
When it comes to dealing with touchy subjects, such as white male privilege or domestic violence, forgiveness and redemption are not usually talked about. Yet forgiveness can include both accountability and remembrance.
This statement becomes the ideology for a purely consequential-based judicial system which would, in the eyes of the law, make every action redeemable. Smith believes there is room for forgiveness in every crime. It relates to the ideas of the pentecostal church, which was founded on the idea that there was always room to come back from any mistake. While this is true when trying to be redeemed, the idea of forgiveness being based purely on the extent of the crime rather than the person itself is sadly an illogical suggestion, because as humans we are flawed in the way that we cannot view a crime in a tunnel.
A man who is guilty of rape for the third time, and even his brother does not believe he is changing for the better should be judged more harshly than the man with one strike against him and an abundance of loving family members who pledge he has improved his ways.
Forgiveness can only be achieved with the intent to change your ways, rather than just redeeming yourself for the singular action. If you have a son and he behaves poorly imagine that! If he wants a new bike, you might deny him that. If he needs help with something, you might not help him…. In your personal walk as a Christian forgiveness is a daily, if not hourly process, even moment to moment, depending on the individual. You confess your sins to the Lord. Confessing sins means enumerating them, that is, name and itemize them.
I knew I should read my Bible and did not. Summary: Remission prepares the way for you to receive the knowledge of salvation. Redemption gives you the actual salvation. Forgiveness is thrown in to start the relationship at a new beginning. Previous Once Saved, Always Saved? Salvation or Probation? Next Salvation under the old testament law? About The Author. For the same reason, people under the Old Law could speak of their redemption Job and forgiveness Leviticus even though the Redeemer had not yet brought the means of forgiveness to the world at that time.
Thank you very much. This sounds sensible, but could you supply a scriptural basis for this? Your comment makes sense, but is still a bit jarring. All three tenses are simultaneously correct. It is what lies at the root of the difficulty some have in comprehending that a saved person can fall from grace and ultimately be lost Some people have a hard time getting their mind around the concept that we are saved because God promised salvation, but we have not yet received the promise.
A profitable study is to go through all the references to "promise" in the book of Hebrews. At first glance the statements in chapter 11 almost seem contradictory. People receive promises, but did not receive the promises. Yet both are true. They were given promises by God, but those promises would not be fulfilled in their lifetime or the lifetime of their children.
Not until enter heaven will the promise of eternal rest be fulfilled. But people altered their lives based on those promises because the one promising is God, who cannot lie. So even though it isn't yet in our possession, we it is a fact that it is there for us and we will receive it -- if we endure. Page Menu. Index Prior Next. Question: First, I must say that your web site is fantastic! Think about all the terms related to salvation: Saved Redeemed Forgiven Sins blotted out Take away sins Wash away sins Purified Cleansed Reconciled Delivered A new life Escaped Released I'm sure there are more, but none of the ones listed above are exactly the same, yet they are interwoven to express an idea that one word cannot adequately express.
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