THE FORGIVENESS (Kingdom Of the Ligth Collection)

Elements of forgiveness

Then their sins will be forgiven, and by faith in me they will become part of God's holy people. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and a share among God's people who are made holy by believing in me. King James Bible To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith that is in me. American King James Version To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

American Standard Version to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me. Douay-Rheims Bible To open their eyes, that they may be converted from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and a lot among the saints, by the faith that is in me.

Throughout the Bible there are numerous examples of God forgiving human sin and humans forgiving their fellow beings. Furthermore, one of the basic principles of Jewish ethics is that humans are mandated to emulate the divine characteristics through which God relates to us. Thus, just as He is kind, merciful and forgiving, so too must we strive to conduct our own lives in the same manner toward others. But far from being just a necessary but regrettable allowance, Judaism teaches that the practice of forgiveness was divinely designed from the very outset of creation.

Thus, the reason why God deliberately created us imperfect is because through the process of sin and reconciliation, both the forgiver and the forgiven can experience tremendous personal and religious growth. It is common experience that when two people in a relationship are able to forgive one another for their flaws and offenses, this process draws them even closer than they would have been had the offense never taken place.

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Yet, everything has its limitations. So, what are the parameters of forgiveness, and what are the requirements for it to be earned? At this point, the blame for the lack of resolution is transferred to the victim of the original offense. It remains clear, however, that if the perpetrator fails to perform the requirements of teshuvah, forgiveness has not been earned and cannot be granted.

For while granting earned forgiveness is an act of grace that may be emotionally restorative, uplifting and inspiring, nevertheless, to grant unearned forgiveness is not kind but callous, and can only further desensitize both the perpetrator and the victim to distinctions of morality. For at no time can any person presume to offer forgiveness to a perpetrator of a crime to which he was not a victim.

In such cases, the perpetrator must realize that he has no recourse to obtain forgiveness from any human being. The answer then to our original question of whether the Nazis can be forgiven becomes clear. The level of teshuvah that would be necessary to rectify the monstrous Nazi crimes would be enormous indeed. It also begs us to ask another question: Has any individual Nazi ever demonstrated this type of remorse, contrition and superhuman determination to make amends?

I have not heard of a single such instance. And even if there was such a person, his murdered victims are no longer alive to even consider granting forgiveness. So, since we are human beings who still have a conscience to discern good from evil, the only conclusion we must come to is that we cannot in any way forgive the Nazis.

In the Gospel of Matthew there are five great discourses of Jesus: The passage for this study on forgiveness is a part of the teaching of Jesus in Matthew 18 on life in the church. The chapter begins with a discussion of who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven vv. This is followed by instructions to the church on how to deal with a brother who has sinned vv.

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It is in this context that Peter asks how often he must forgive an offending brother vv. In answer, Jesus tells the parable of the unmerciful servant vv.

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Up to seven times? Then Peter came to Jesus and asked.

Kingdom Forgiveness; Verse Commentary on Matthew

Peter's question was in response to the statement of Jesus in vv. Jewish tradition limited forgiveness to three times, perhaps based on Amos 1: Peter thought his willingness to forgive seven times was much more generous than Jewish tradition and thus surpassing the righteousness of Pharisees and teachers of the law Matthew 5: The phrase may also be translated "seventy times seven. This expression may be a deliberate allusion to Lamech's revengeful and bitter words in Gen 4: Peter's question indicated that he still wanted to count how many times he should forgive.

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Jesus was in effect telling him not to count. Therefore attaches the following parable to the dialogue between Peter and Jesus. However, the parable is not an exact answer to Peter's question about how many times he must forgive. Jesus may have originally spoken the parable at another occasion, although it still relates to the topic of forgiveness.

The kingdom of heaven is like. As in many of the parables of Jesus, this phrase does not mean that the kingdom of God is like any one element in the parable, but it is like the parable taken as a whole. In this parable, the kingdom of heaven is not like the king; it is like the parable in its entirety with all the things that happen in it. In the parables of Jesus a king often stands for God. But if the king in this parable stands for God, the parable raises some disturbing questions about God's forgiveness, as will be seen below.

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The characters in the parables of Jesus are often morally questionable. Therefore one must look for the truth of a parable in the impact of the story as a whole, not in the moral quality of the individual characters in the story. A king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. The reference may be to the custom of a gentile king who demanded an accounting from high officials to whom he had given the responsibility of collecting taxes from provinces within the kingdom. A man who owed him ten thousand talents. This amount is so large that it cannot possibly be a personal loan.

Even as taxes from a province it is an incredibly huge amount. Ten thousand was the largest number in the first century. The value of a talent varied from six to ten thousand denarii.