According To Anselm Analysis

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Anselm said that humankind has offended god’s honor by not fulfilling the duty of the perfect obedience. However, humans owned god nothing than the total honesty in every single action we do, but we actually do not do that we disobey god and we turnaway from him, we always but ourselfs in the position of debting before god. Sin is understood as a failure to fulfill a duty, by sinning humankind disrupted the beauty of the universe because god has to give us a punshment as he gave adam and eve after they sinned and turned away from god. Accourding to anselm, god’s honor and justice are requires that the human sin be either satisfied or punished. Anselm cannot imagine god as a distant offended or demanding death in order to be saturated. For god to go aganist his character and to go aganist his planes …show more content…
Aselm viewed sin in terms of a debt afford by paying the debt, humankind could avoid the punshment that would follow. Aselm also said that only a god-man could offer the necessary satisfaction for human sin because refusing god appropriate grace or his proper respect that is really such a great dishonor which however humans cannot do, so that for all efforts to repay the debt serve only to fill up their present duty. The death of the god-man offered the repayment of the debt that is not his. Jesus christ dead on the cross without sin, he was obeying god the father, so what I mean is that god could not fail to reward him for offering himself in this way, he had been cruxified for our sin to be forgiven, and that is such a great gift for us, it’s a gift which we are not deserve. Anselm’s opinion about that was jesus death alone because of our sins and he offered salvation to all of us. Through jesus’s death god justice and humankind sinful. Anselm provides a logical rational for jesus being divine and human at the same time, he confirmed that christ’s two natures within one

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