I'm pretty sure from the amount of cynicism in your post that your acceptance and desire is disingenuous. But that's just my observation, your relationship with God is between you and him, and if you have then good for you. The analogy was a really simple one, it's obvious you're unwilling to accept anything. But to continue to answer your question:
Forgiveness
1. Act of forgiving; state of being forgiven.
an act implies cause and effect (ie. I offer, you accept)
2. disposition or willingness to forgive.
being willing to forgive is one person's side to it. When dealing with people I can be willing to forgive them just as you said you were to me, but without their implied acceptance there is no relationship it's one-sided. In that sense then God forgives everyone.
Forgiving:
1. to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
The pardon has been given and the ransom has been paid
2. to give up all claim on account of; remit (a debt, obligation, etc.).
remitting is an act of absolving. It implies cause and effect see 1. above
3. to grant pardon to (a person).
And if I handed you a letter of pardon, would you take it or say no thanks? It very clearly does imply acceptance
I honestly don't even see a correlation with blackmail at all, you must be a really good absurdist, because any correlation to blackmail would be absurd.
Forgiveness
1. Act of forgiving; state of being forgiven.
an act implies cause and effect (ie. I offer, you accept)
2. disposition or willingness to forgive.
being willing to forgive is one person's side to it. When dealing with people I can be willing to forgive them just as you said you were to me, but without their implied acceptance there is no relationship it's one-sided. In that sense then God forgives everyone.
Forgiving:
1. to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
The pardon has been given and the ransom has been paid
2. to give up all claim on account of; remit (a debt, obligation, etc.).
remitting is an act of absolving. It implies cause and effect see 1. above
3. to grant pardon to (a person).
And if I handed you a letter of pardon, would you take it or say no thanks? It very clearly does imply acceptance
I honestly don't even see a correlation with blackmail at all, you must be a really good absurdist, because any correlation to blackmail would be absurd.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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