Forgiveness, human pride, and divine power are in view, today. A fighter at “Yahoo! Answers Singapore” using the ID “PeteThePrenuptialAg” (Level 1 with points, a member since September 28, 2014) posted the following:
Does the fact that I can forgive without conditions and God can't mean that in some way I am more powerful than God?
THE GOLDEN ARROW: And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written. And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book. Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. And the LORD plagued the people, because they made the calf, which Aaron made. (Exodus 32: 31-35, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Giving Forgiveness? (03/15/2014); Cleansing the Temple, and the Body (03/16/2014); Wrong Not to Forgive (03/05/2014); Done in Faith? (03/06/2014); Forgiveness Through GOD? (02/02/2014); Obliged to Disregard? (02/03/2014); Theoretical Forgiveness? (07/03/2013); The Return in Glory? (07/04/2013)
“PeteThePrenuptialAg”, here are a few points to consider that Christian believers use to maintain their correct understanding:
(1.) The way a person answers one question affects the way they will answer every other question, because a pattern of interlocking truth must eventually emerge, or they will emotionally, intellectually and mentally collapse from confusion. Christians are those who respond using a tested system of belief (i.e., a comprehensive, unchanging pattern of ideas, practices, and values that has been used by many different people, in many different cultures, over the course of centuries) initiated by GOD appearing in the person of Jesus Christ.
(2.) Created beings and living creatures all possess awareness and self-will; and are subject to appetite (e.g., hunger, thirst, sexual cravings), sensation (hearing, seeing, tasting, touching), and emotional/mental states (e.g., anger, desire, fear, imagination, recall). All are vulnerable to a non-material, non-spirit influence that is called “sin”. Sin opposes the existence of divine law, of the divine law giver, and of the divine order that maintains the known universe.
(3.) Divine power to forgive must come from GOD. Apologies, expressions that arise from etiquette or good manners, forgiveness that comes by changeable human feelings and social norms are all temporal, and only last for a short duration within the framework of time. As finite responses, none have power to counteract or permanently eliminate the operations of sin. Through the ministry of Jesus, believers are given a fresh endowment of spirit content from the makeup of divinity. Included are inseparable aspects of divinity such as faith, forbearance, forgiveness, holiness, humility, love, longsuffering, truth, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
Of course, there is far more to be said and understood, before all the things of spirit can be correctly apprehended. (For example, (4.) Men in the earth can not alter the record of human deeds that exists before GOD as the Book of Life. The blood of Jesus can blot out a record of sin. Humans can not cleanse one another of sin; yet, believers are given authority and privilege to declare and acknowledge (witness) forgiveness from GOD. We only may proclaim the provision by GOD of atonement and propitiation for sin, the recorded promises, and the comfort we ourselves are receiving as those trusting on the basis of our own spirit content.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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