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29-10-2020
Column: Pastor - THE WONDER OF FORGIVENESS
Column: Pastor - THE WONDER OF FORGIVENESS
Forgiveness can be easily misunderstood as an accommodation to evil to keep the peace. It can also be misunderstood as a self-centred act in which the one who forgives is the one who receives the peace, and well-being. It’s almost like the one who did the wrong doesn’t really exist. But the one who has been wronged just has to ‘let go of it’. You’ll feel much better if you do. In the background lurks the feeling that there is no real justice anyway.
Biblical forgiveness is embedded in a view of reality that sees personal or social injustice (sin) to be both a violation of God’s will and a wrong against those who are created in his image. Behind the Biblical injunction to forgive others is a God who is both the judge of all humankind and a merciful saviour of those who are guilty of wrong against God and people. How easy it can be to forget that the death of Christ is an atoning death. It pays the price of judgment that we have earned. ‘For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Chri

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