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In Les Misérables, follow the candlesticks to see Love triumph over Law.

Les Misérables is a tangled web of unrelenting law and unconditional love. What happens when justice and mercy collide? Law must be satisfied. Love must find reconciliation. There is no common ground between the two. If there has been wrong, law demands its due. Is this the dilemma of our relationship with God?

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Comment by Carolyn Burns on February 24, 2013 at 10:32pm


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I dont grasp the reaxsoning for using the word reconciliation for Love. Whose Love? God's or mans? God's love is unconditional. There is no need for "dues' with God's free grace which reconciles us. Am I on track?

May I enter another movie for ponderance  here,having just seen "The Life of Pi" (the Movie):and then reading reviews like http://www.bookish.com/books/life-of-pi/3b900130-d7a7-4fdc-840c-762...  " Yann Martel's Life of Pi is a transformative novel, a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound readers in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will, as one character puts it, make you believe in God.'   These links  enlarge on it much more

Surviving 227 days at sea… especially with a tiger.”
Pi does not believe that any of the world’s religions are a one-stop shop for the truth of God – and his goal is not to convert anyone to a specific dogma. Instead, his story is set up to help viewers/readers consider which version of the world they prefer – the one where we make our own way and suffer through the darkness via self-determination, or the one where we are aided by something greater than ourselves (regardless of which version of “God” we may accept). - Ben Kendrick
If any readers have seen it or read the book , do you agree with me that there is an option that the Spirit working faith and change in Pi's heart  . ( This being the scenario of non animal interpretation.)

 

 

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