Let's face it, we can't forget!
2006-11-17 04:09:12 · 30 answers · asked by I'm Sparticus 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Greetings Swordarke...you are forgiven...
2006-11-17 04:16:51 · update #1
Hail Leviathan! (He happens to be my patron.) I think there is a time and place for forgiveness. Sometimes it's better to seek revenge in justice rather than just revenge. Though I do agree that forgetting can be difficult.
2006-11-17 04:13:08 · answer #1 · answered by swordarkeereon 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Do not seek revenge, or vengeance. These are not positive things to engage in (either for man or for God). But do not seek to forget past wrongs either. Remember them. But even as you remember them, so too should you remember that you have done things that have hurt others as well. Do not forget that you are just as human as everyone else. Forgive others because this is the best path to peace and unity. Revenge severs the ties of love, and makes mock of grace.
2006-11-17 12:16:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
To forgive calls upon our love-- to forget calls upon our strength.
When you forgive and forget it takes you from the place of the victim to that of a victor.
Don't dwell on your weaknesses-work on your strengths.
You can forget the hurt you felt and move on happens all the time in life. And that is the part that bothers people the most.
On REVENGE----If you can read this, you are in range. Look out, I am keeping a close eye.
No, I'm not feeling violent, I'm feeling creative.
2006-11-18 10:14:22 · answer #3 · answered by *** The Earth has Hadenough*** 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Revenge serves only one thing. You.
Forgiveness serves far more. Once you are able to forgive, you immediately let go of the pain associated with the perceived crime against you. Therefore you are served by no longer having to invest in something that is a source great pain.
Forgiveness also serves the one who did the negative thing to you. Hopefully, once confronted by you and then forgiven, the individual is afforded the opportunity to see where they went wrong. This affords them the chance to grow and learn through your forgiveness of them.
On a larger scale, who is being served by war motivated by revenge? No one. The avenger must suffer financial loss as well as loss of life in order to exact revenge. The ones having revenge exacted upon them must suffer the loss of human life as well as the destruction of their society - their means of basic survival. Consequently...
Revenge does not serve the avenger nor does it serve the ones upon which revenge is being dished out.
Forgiveness serves all.
2006-11-17 12:19:19 · answer #4 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In my opinion, forgiveness is necessary for my own well-being. It doesn't even matter if the person I'm forgiving knows that I have done so. In fact, it's sometimes preferable that they do not know...I've seen people use "I forgive you" as a slap in the face.
It's important to forgive, imo, because of what it does for me, not for the other person. It frees me.
On the other hand, when someone comes to me with an admission of having done me wrong, forgiveness is important to both of us.
Forgetting, on the other hand, is sometimes a bad idea. When we remember the harm done to ourselves, not forgetting what that felt like can lead us to be more compassionate and less likely to enact upon others what was done to us.
2006-11-17 12:18:31 · answer #5 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If your neighbor does you harm and you take revenge on him, will not your neighbor's brother come looking for you to avenge his brother? And when you are dead, will not your own brother go looking for revenge, too? Where will it end?
Revenge is tempting, but it has a way of spiraling out of control, creating more harm than the original offense.
Justice is best. Forgiveness is a personal choice, but a civilized society requires justice.
2006-11-17 12:22:02 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes we should forgive . The time is never right for revenge .
What has not forgetting got to do with it ?
Someone has to break the cycle , why not you?
2006-11-17 12:29:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some accidents can be forgiven... but carelessness and intentional transgression should be treated in accordance with Lex Talionis and paid back in kind.
Someone punches you without justification, you punch them back equally.
Someone kills your mother... you kill theirs.
That is the only way to keep things fair.
Obviously on many occasions they will have different beliefs and retaliate again, but that is why you must endeavour to keep things balanced and hit them back for every time they strike you. Only when they learn that they cannot achieve anything ultimately will it get the point across and the violence can stop.
2006-11-17 12:15:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
As Christians, We should always forgive and never take revenge,
2006-11-17 15:23:44 · answer #9 · answered by waycyber 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Always forgive, revenge eats away at you
2006-11-17 12:45:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋