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To: ravenwolf

Forgiveness and repentance go hand in hand. When we see one, we should think of the other.

So if some one drives by or flies by and throws a blicket that hits me in the face i can not forgive them because i have no way of knowing if they knew it hit me and no way of knowing if they repented if they did know.

Well, i think i had better just wipe it off and forgive


Well, I guess is depends on what is is. God says there is forgiveness of sins if there is repentance. You have the privilege of defining it differently.

If we accept God’s definition, what we do is something other than forgiveness or it is incomplete as best I can determine.


21 posted on 04/02/2017 11:26:59 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

If we accept God’s definition, what we do is something other than forgiveness or it is incomplete as best I can determine.


Matthew 6:14–15
14 For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, 15 but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Now i wonder how i will explain to God that i did not forgive that man because i did not know if he had repented or not?


22 posted on 04/03/2017 9:52:37 AM PDT by ravenwolf (If the Bible does not say it in plain words, please don`t preach it to me.)
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