I’m sorry, I wasn’t clear. I want to clarify I was trying to let you know your forgiveness IS effective, and “good enough”...Because forgiveness and excusal aren’t the same.
Often when well-meaning but fictitious Christians harp at other Christians to forgive, they mean excusal (to pretend it hadn’t happened, or that it did, but didn’t m…
I’m sorry, I wasn’t clear. I want to clarify I was trying to let you know your forgiveness IS effective, and “good enough”...Because forgiveness and excusal aren’t the same.
Often when well-meaning but fictitious Christians harp at other Christians to forgive, they mean excusal (to pretend it hadn’t happened, or that it did, but didn’t matter). That ISN’T forgiveness.
Additionally, I haven’t figured out everything I should believe about this, but I have recently heard it argued that when Jesus said “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”, He was referring to the Roman guards who were clueless about Judaic Law, and NOT the Pharisees who set Him up for murder. I’m still pondering that idea, and I’m careful about how to handle it, because it means so much. It sounds more or less like you and I actually see eye-to-eye in the matter. We handle it the same way.
Considering the value in taking some responsibility for failing to seek knowledge, be awake, detect and work to destroy evil. I am part of that. We were all and are still subject to the brainwashing fearmongering psyop if we blindly follow government TV narratives and trust people instead of God’s wisdom.
Victims of our own ignorance, its a bit easier to forgive.
I’m sorry, I wasn’t clear. I want to clarify I was trying to let you know your forgiveness IS effective, and “good enough”...Because forgiveness and excusal aren’t the same.
Often when well-meaning but fictitious Christians harp at other Christians to forgive, they mean excusal (to pretend it hadn’t happened, or that it did, but didn’t matter). That ISN’T forgiveness.
Additionally, I haven’t figured out everything I should believe about this, but I have recently heard it argued that when Jesus said “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”, He was referring to the Roman guards who were clueless about Judaic Law, and NOT the Pharisees who set Him up for murder. I’m still pondering that idea, and I’m careful about how to handle it, because it means so much. It sounds more or less like you and I actually see eye-to-eye in the matter. We handle it the same way.
Considering the value in taking some responsibility for failing to seek knowledge, be awake, detect and work to destroy evil. I am part of that. We were all and are still subject to the brainwashing fearmongering psyop if we blindly follow government TV narratives and trust people instead of God’s wisdom.
Victims of our own ignorance, its a bit easier to forgive.