Loving and forgiving your enemies

[Chad32]

A big reason that he taught forgiving your enemies is because he thought the world was going to end within the next decade or so. That's also why he told his followers to give away everything they owned and don't worry about the future. I wonder if he'd be saying that if he was aware that we'd still be around for thousands of years afterward.

I suppose it's good to forgive someone who genuinely repents and works to make up for their bad deeds, and even if they don't you don't want your anger to burn you up inside. There's an old saying that anger is like a hot coal that you hold in your hand, planning to throw it at someone.

Forgive, but don't forget. You don't want to go as faar as some things Jesus wanted people to do, but you don't want to let it go too far the other way either.