WHEN FORGIVENESS IS A SIN
Preger writes
"The bodies of the three teen girls shot dead by a fellow student at Heath High School in West Paducah, Ky., were not yet cold before some of their schoolmates hung a sign announcing, "We forgive you, Mike!" They were referring to Micgeal Carneal, 14, the killer.
"This immediate and automatic forgiveness is not surprising. Over the past generation, many Christians have adopted the idea that they should forgive everyone who commits evil against anyone, no matter how great whether or not the evil doer repents......
"I am appalled and frightened by this feel good doctrine of automatic forgiveness. This doctrine advances the amoral notion that no matter how much you hurt others, millions of your fellow citizens will forgive you. It destroys Christianity's central moral tenets about forgiveness. Even by God, forgiveness is contingent on the sinner repenting, and it can be given only by the one sinned against".
And on and on Prager talks against forgiveness. Of course Prager is a Jew not a Christian so he can never understand the notion of forgiveness. He has successful treated the issue of forgiveness like any canal man will.
As christains, we forgive people because it is our nature to forgive. Don't you get it? We are love beings. No matter how we have been wronged we let go. Prager mentioned that even by God, forgiveness is contingent on the sinner repenting. I see Prager doesn't really understand what repentance means and he certainly has forgotten that no one repented before Christ died.
We live in a lawful society and anyone caught breaking the law is punished, but we know the value of forgiveness. We know that no matter the sin God has already forgiven and we forgive also. We know peace because we are forgiven and we forgive. To us, forgiveness is never a sin.
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