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This happened because of sin. The sin might reveal that he is not even a true Christian. Imagine that. You can preach a lot of truth but if you do not live by it, you are not the real deal.

One of the greatest truths preached by Christianity is the forgiveness of sins. If one claims to be a Christian and then doesn't forgive another's sins, then indeed that one is not much of a Christian.

That is why those who compiled the Creed put it in: "I believe in the foregiveness of sins." It is easy to forget unless we are reminded. And much harder to put into practice.

You mean like the forgiveness the Catholic Church showed the pederast priests? They use forgiveness and "seventy times seven" as a blindfold to sin. That's not godly forgiveness. That's aiding and abetting sin -- horrible, awful sin where young boys were terribly scarred, over and over. The good doctrine of forgiveness was used by Satan to spread something horribly unrighteous.

See, even sound doctrine can be manipulated to serve sin when we allow ourselves to ever stop remembering we serve a holy God. We are to seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness. Forgiveness is about restoration for the sake of righteousness. It isn't to give aid and comfort to unrighteousness. We have lost our ability to reason out these matters. Forgive in a way that honors God's righteousness. That means you do not keep a meth using, prostitute seeking pastor in leadership even if he is sorry. If he repents, you keep him in fellowship but you watch him so that you can help REALLY restore him. If he doesn't repent you break fellowship with him, hoping it will help lead him to eventual repentance, and remembering we serve a HOLY God. There are others in the fellowship who could stumble because of this so you must be very careful. You have to look at the big picture and remember who you serve.