RE: Loving and forgiving your enemies
December 12, 2015 at 11:22 am
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2015 at 11:23 am by Catholic_Lady.)
(December 12, 2015 at 11:19 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:(December 12, 2015 at 10:44 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Ok, just making sure because you made a huge blanket statement about Christians who choose to forgive.
No. I made a statement about my interpretation of christian concept of forgiveness, as illustrated by the quote from a popular prayer - not about people, who happen to be christians and choose to forgive. Those are two different things. Forgiving someone in order to have closure and end grieving process - that's one thing. Forgiving them because you're told it is expected of you, if you want to be a "good christian" - that's another.
They don't have to be mutually exclusive at all. The more common thing is for it to be both. Forgive because it helps the healing process and because you feel it is the right thing to do. Sounds like for this particular lady it was both.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
