(August 19, 2019 at 3:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(August 19, 2019 at 3:48 pm)Lek Wrote: If you steal money from me, you have wronged me and owe me restitution. If your friend comes to me and offers to repay what you steal if I agree to drop charges and I agree, you are resolved of your debt. A person can forgive another person for a legitimate offense and not demand restitution. In this case, even though the offender didn't do anything to make up for the offense, he is forgiven and absolved.
But that doesn't absolve me of the crime of the original theft. Because *I* haven't done anything to make restitution to *you*. Substituting a whipping boy for a prince doesn't change the offense committed by the prince.
Forgiveness isn't the same issue at all.
Boru
Well, God is the one we offended and he accepts Jesus' sacrifice in our place. Forgiveness is an issue in in that case.
