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Author: Robert Flynn Created: 5/11/2007 6:01 PM
We find it hard to forgive because we are ignorant of what is really required!

Does the Bible teach that we are to forgive under all circumstances?  I answer categorically, vigorously, ardently, insistently that it DOES NOT!

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You cannot heal a wound by ignoring the injury! Isn't that what we are doing when we say to ourselves that the hurt we received doesn't matter.  Our tendency in these matters is to tough it out. My favorite cartoon, from my Navy days, was a picture of an old Boatswains Mate (Bos'ns Mate) whose left sleeve betrayed him as long on service and short on rank. There was an anvil, a large hammer, and his thumb with marks that showed it to be radiating with much pain. The caption read: “Goodness, I've...

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A drunken driver speeds through a school zone and strikes several children in the crosswalk.  If the children's parents believe they must excuse the driver because he was drunk, they will not forgive.  Excusing the drunken drive would say, in essence, that he could not help himself as was not to blame for his actions.  This would be untrue.

If we look closely, we will find that "Forgiveness" is the polar opposite of excusing.  Forgiveness must reach beyond excusing.  Forgiveness acknowledges...

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