This is a survey. So please HONESTY is key. When you forgive and forget. Is there a part of you, no matter how small, that's hoping God will punish your transgressors once you forgive them?
2007-01-06 09:02:29 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Honestly, no. Because if I did feel that way, I wouldn't have truly forgiven or forgotten.
However, when I'm still seething mad, and have not forgiven, I probably wish for them to get theirs. But, I usually apologize to God right after I have those thoughts because it is not for me to judge them. It's usually part of my healing process of realizing it is best for me to just get over it.
2007-01-06 09:07:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No! When a person forgives another everything should be final. Nevertheless some people will use a grudge or something like that to hang on to, while still holding on to what they were forgiven for. In God's eyes, who will be in the wrong? The person that forgave the other person, while still holding a grudge, or the person who asked for forgiveness? The truth is the person holding a grudge will be punished. Once a person ask for forgiveness, and another person accepts it, that's where it should be, forgotten. Live life long and prosper! That is in God's prayer in the Book of Mathew
2007-01-06 17:11:42 · answer #2 · answered by George 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I felt that way, then that would not be true foregiveness. What if God were to forgive you for doing something wrong, and then decided to punish you for the same thing. How would that make you feel? To forgive is indeed divine and since we are all imperfect and sin each day, we need to forgive others as our heavenly Father forgives us. If God held all the wrong things we do against us, what future hope would we have? I am very grateful that he forgives all of us if we ask him to and we must do our utmost to worship him in spirit and in truth.
2007-01-06 17:15:09 · answer #3 · answered by Micah 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, not at all. God knows my transgressions against others. God is infinately just. As a Catholic, who has done some reading on the subject, I firmly believe in Purgatory where our sins are purged from our souls. I heard it described this way: Sin is like a nail driven into the wooden cross, repenting of the sin and Christ's sacrifice takes that nail out of the cross. Their still remains the hole. This gets filled in when we are purified in Purgatory.
Forgiveness, if it is not true, will eat the person up inside.
2007-01-06 17:23:07 · answer #4 · answered by Search4truth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If I truly forgive someone, no.
If I smooth things over just to make nice but I really don't feel like that person is sorry and I know it's just gonna be the same crap as always...I feel a lot of resentment and I sometimes wish the other person would suffer just to know how I feel.
But really, suffering generally doesn't make people better, unless they're extremely philosophical and happy in general and are able to see the silver lining in every cloud. I'd like people to be happy, and retaliation won't make them happier.
I think usually when people say they "forgive" someone...it's a total crock. If there's part of you that wants revenge, from God or you or whomever...you totally haven't forgiven and you certainly haven't forgotten.
The best revenge is a life well lived. It's true, really. Wish I were better at it!
2007-01-06 17:08:11 · answer #5 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You cannot forgive and forget. God calls us to forgive. Forgetting is foolish. If your wife cheats on you, you can forgive her, but it is foolish to forget that the last time she went to a bar she messed around, when she is saying she's going again.
Forgiveness is the act of releasing the punishment or payment of a debt or transgresssion of another person.
To answer your question. I have forgiven many people, and have no desire to see them punished. If that feeling comes up, I will ask for help again in forgiving them.
2007-01-06 17:10:18 · answer #6 · answered by didjlord 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I forgive and forget.
forgiveness is a gift you give it to yourself, not to others.
so you can enjoy your self, peace and the love you receive from others. When you don't forgive, your heart is full of pain and this pain will stop you from enjoying your life. Leave people to God and go on in the business of living.
2007-01-06 17:22:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there is. I have to keep asking God to forgive me for those vile thoughts. I even have fantasies about what Id like God to do to them. But God hears us and is faithful and after sometime those thoughts and feelings disappear
2007-01-06 17:19:21 · answer #8 · answered by Classique 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Reincarnationist. I positively cannot sustain unforgiveness or anger. When I forgive someone, it's for my sake as much as the person forgiven. When I recovered from the grief, I forgave the person who killed my child. I can't wish harm on him, or on anyone. I feel pity for someone like that, because I know he must face a difficult karma, which many of us must.
2007-01-06 17:14:56 · answer #9 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course there is, you always think that forgive and forget is a free pass for that person to do it again, you just have to know that they will be judged and wayed in heaven
2007-01-06 17:09:19 · answer #10 · answered by Lauren 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋