[Hank Kerchief]

Hi Valpal1,

Yes, it is picky semantics, because in everyday language, "sin" means to "do evil." In your language I would say, no sin should ever be forgiven, and reality never forgives it. Every wrong act or thought has a bad consequence, generally commensurate with the severity of the wrong--and ought to.

One of the difficulties I see with the concept of forgiveness, is, since most wrong is perpetrated against someone else, the only one who has a right to forgive it in the first place is the victim. For someone else to "forgive" it is presumptuous, whether God or man.

Regi

[Valpal1]

God doesn't forgive the sin or the evil, he forgives people. God has the right to forgive because every sin is first and foremost a transgression against God. A sin may or may not be a transgression against another human being and may or may not result in evil (harm to another) but they are all a trangression against God.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?