A RESPECT RESTORATION THEORY OF RECONCILIATION WITH THE JUNE FOURTH INCIDENT AS A CASE STUDY

Abstract

Evil does not accidentally wrong; it necessarily does so. With Jesus, we understand evil better through His mercilessness on Satan and its followers. Love your enemies, but not Satan, who constitutes enemy in spirituality. A genuine reconciliation is possible between enemies, if respect is understood correctly. It is so rare that the perpetrator offered the victim the satisfaction of retribution, with which the victim could have decided to forgive and not exact some earthly, mafia, justice. Christianity obligates forgiveness in this way: Christians are not Christ-like shall they retributed. The opportunity to forgive is a Godsend. This paper explores the respect restoration theory of reconciliation with the June Fourth Incident happened in Tiananmen Square as a case study. It both demonstrates and illustrates the truth of the theory through a reconstruction of events that are the only possible past with which the killing was not evil and the perpetrator forgivable.