Quote:So in your estimation one who commits murder and is sentenced to life in a max security prison can find happiness with the remainder of his life being caged in a tiny room 23 hours a day?
Again forgiveness of sin only clears one's personal debt to God not to what is owed to society.
One who commits murder should realize that their actions were wrong and try to rectify. Serving in prison might help there. No one is going to be happy in prison. Some sort of punishment is viable for a misdeed. Murder is something the divine wrote in a book and your following it. Had the divine wrote something else you would still follow that. Even though murder is in the divine books still there is a chance of forgiveness. I'm sorry but why should God forgive for breaking his own commandment ? Let alone moral thinking.
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path" - Gautama Buddha
