If by forgiveness you mean to absolve another of their sins, or allow them to stay in relation to their victims so they can make it right, I heartily disagree. This opens the door for good men to do nothing while evil men have their pleasure.
Do not conflate the power of God with the power of man.
there is great debate on this issue. No one can say with absolute certainty they are correct. That is another mistake of the human emulating God.
Forgive as ye seek to be forgiven is holding others to the same standard.
Do you honestly mean to tell me that God expects us to forgive murderers, rapists, torturers? He can -- because he knows what is in their hearts, he can trust his judgement. We CANNOT know what is in someone else's heart and the sociopath will exploit the "forgiveness" angle as long as it works for them.
As far as what Hell is -- there is great debate on that as well.
So we disagree. I doubt we will each persuade the other, but probably we are both good enough people to atleast make it to the gates of heaven -- God knows our hearts. I do not believe his standard is so high that only the sainted who can forgive the most heinous acts make it to heaven.
Agree to disagree.
If by forgiveness you mean to absolve another of their sins, or allow them to stay in relation to their victims so they can make it right, I heartily disagree. This opens the door for good men to do nothing while evil men have their pleasure.
Do not conflate the power of God with the power of man.
there is great debate on this issue. No one can say with absolute certainty they are correct. That is another mistake of the human emulating God.
Forgive as ye seek to be forgiven is holding others to the same standard.
Do you honestly mean to tell me that God expects us to forgive murderers, rapists, torturers? He can -- because he knows what is in their hearts, he can trust his judgement. We CANNOT know what is in someone else's heart and the sociopath will exploit the "forgiveness" angle as long as it works for them.
As far as what Hell is -- there is great debate on that as well.
So we disagree. I doubt we will each persuade the other, but probably we are both good enough people to atleast make it to the gates of heaven -- God knows our hearts. I do not believe his standard is so high that only the sainted who can forgive the most heinous acts make it to heaven.