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on Forgiveness
Saturday, October 6, 2007 by Jay T.
Personal forgiveness has seemed fallacious to me. To say “I forgive you” is to put myself above you, so why do that? It’s also very cheap. It costs me nothing to forgive. So why would it be worth doing? It was opened to me today, on reading Mark 11:25 (Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.), that forgiving someone benefits me, even if it doesn’t benefit her. Read the rest of this entry »
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