And going to my point, Christ does not forgive me if I'm unrepentant, right? So if I expect a person to be sorry that they raped my daughter, before I forgive them, that seems in keeping with Christ's teaching.
Jesus paid the full price for the sins of the whole world 2000 years ago (1John 2:2). It’s a blank check of forgiveness signed in Jesus perfect, eternal blood.
All anyone has to do is take it.
I didn’t even know what “repentance” meant when I received Jesus. All I knew was I needed Jesus and when I asked him to come into my heart he did. I didn’t have to change or clean myself up or show some kind of “repentance.” All I had to do was call out on Jesus “just as I am”.
“For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom 10:13). I’ll vouch for that.