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To: TheZMan
God is not the forgiver, Jesus is.

This isn't what Jesus said at all:

Matthew 6:14 For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:

15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Nor is what is said by the Apostles.

Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.

If you view God as an omnipotent, generally detached entity and Jesus as being one that understands and cares for man, then it starts to make more sense.

Again, this is not what Jesus said:

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

57 posted on 04/06/2013 1:17:12 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (People should not be afraid of the government. Government should be afraid of the people)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

I understand that. I’m trying to make sense of something that we otherwise cannot truly understand.


58 posted on 04/06/2013 1:19:35 PM PDT by TheZMan (Buy more ammo.)
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