(November 17, 2014 at 4:31 pm)professor Wrote: FAF ,the granting of forgiveness in our personal relationships always has some basis.
Think about it.
If someone violates you, do you offer that person blanket forgiveness without regard to their attitude and behavior?
Or is there a reason you forgive?
I carry no grudges against anyone. I forgive people who have wronged me even when they don't deserve it. Why? Because holding a grudge is pointless. It accomplishes nothing and makes me feel unnecessarily negative.
Quote:Now, we Christians are told to forgive without regard to the other person's stance because Christ forgave us-and paid for our missing the mark- that is our basis. And that basis is predicated upon our actively taking His pardon.
It's pretty much common sense that Christians would be a lot better about doing that if their God set that example for them to follow. Your god undermines his own authority by being inconsistent. It's his own fault.
Quote:But I am not talking about us in the question I ask, this is about how people like yourself deal with offenses.
Is there not a basis for forgiveness?
It seem obvious there is.
So how can you expect God to extend blanket pardons when you will not do it?
How do you expect us to believe that your god is perfect and superior when you make so many excuses for why he behaves in a way nobody finds acceptable even in inferior beings such as ourselves? Why is it so crazy to expect better from a superior being?
I know you guys come here thinking that you're going to find that perfect converting checkmate of an argument, but all you're doing is coming to a group of people who already don't go for your belief system and demonstrate, over and over, exactly why our complaints about it are entirely valid.