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JOHN 20:22-23
(Resurrected back to Earth life Jesus) breathed on them and said,
“Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone’s sins, their sins
are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.”
LUKE 17
(Jesus) Beware among yourselves. If your brother should sin, rebuke him;
and if he repents, forgive him. And if he should offend you seven times
in a day, and seven times in a day turn to you and say, I repent; forgive him.
MATTHEW 18
Then his master called him and said to him, O wicked servant, I forgave all
your debt because you begged me to do so. Was it not right for you to forgive
your fellow-servant when he begged you to do so, just as I forgave
you when you begged me to do so? So his master was very angry at
the wicked servant, and delivered him to the scourgers until
he should pay everything he owed him. So will my Father in heaven
do to anyone who does not forgive his brother's fault
if his brother asks for forgiveness.
SINCE GOD'S WORD SAYS TO FORGIVE
ANYONE WHO ASKS FOR FORGIVENESS,
AND JESUS' WORDS THAT YOU ARE QUOTING
PROVIDE FOR BOTH FORGIVING AND NOT FORGIVING,
OBVIOUSLY JESUS WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT IN REGARDS TO
A SITUATION WHERE FORGIVENESS IS BEING ASKED FOR AS IN
WHAT THE SO-CALLED ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH CALLS
"THE SACRAMENT OF CONFESSION" !!!!!!!!!!!!
JESUS WAS REFERRING TO A SITUATION
WHERE TRESPASS OCCURS AND THE TRESPASSER
HAS NOT ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS / REPENTED
IN THE FUTURE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN
HIS THUS SPOKEN-TO APOSTLES
AND THE VARIOUS INDIVIDUALS
THAT THEY DEAL WITH IN THEIR LIVES.
BOTTOM LINE:
FORGIVENESS MUST BE GIVEN IF ASKED FOR.
FORGIVENESS DOES NOT HAVE TO BE GIVEN IF NOT ASKED FOR.
AND IF AND WHEN SOMEONE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
DOES FORGIVE SOMEONE ELSE THAT SOMEONE ELSE'S SIN,
GOD FORGIVES THAT SIN ALSO.
AND IF AND WHEN SOMEONE WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
DOES NOT FORGIVE SOMEONE ELSE THAT SOMEONE ELSE'S SIN
(A SOMEONE ELSE WHO HAS NOT ASKED FOR FORGIVENESS),
GOD DOES NOT FORGIVE THAT SIN ALSO.