Is it right to forgive?

Question

What about justice? A person deserving punishment for what they have done or then must repent and make things right, restore what was taken.

Answer 1

Sure it is.

Biblical: the Bible tells you to.

Logical: What's the point of staying angry all of the time? I know, sometimes it's really hard to forgive. However, holding a grudge will never get you anywhere. You just linger on the problem, never truly allowing it to go away.

Answer 2

It is always right to forgive, no matter what the problem or what happened. Some things may be easier to forgive than others but forgiving is how we should live life. If we don't forgive other people then we have just destroyed another chance of having a friend. I mean although it may be very hard to forgive someone for what they did you must forgive them because if you don't forgive them you are being just like them, And the old saying is "two wrongs don't make a right" No matter what we all must always forgive others.

Answer 3

There is no right or wrong answer to your question.

If you can truly forgive someone, by all means go-ahead. But by no means, you should force yourself to forgive, simply because it is the right thing to do, according to someone else.

Of course, you shouldn't worry about petty little thing that happened to you in your past. Cost involved in keeping such a small thing in your mind is just too great. But for serious harm done to you, you shouldn't force yourself to forgive or forget until you are fully comfortable with the situation, and you made a decision that it is in your best interest to do so.

People who will say to just forgive, most often has not gone through serious damage done to themselves. It is a highly personal decision. Don't let someone tell you what to do.

Answer 4

I believe that it is extremly important to forgive. Let me tell you a little story: I met one of my good friends when I was in junior high. We became very close very quickly, and remained good friends all through high school. He graduated a year before me, and then went to college about three hours away. He came back after a year for Thanksgiving, and then went back. A year passed, then two.....nothing, not a phone call, not a letter, nothing to even confirm that he was still alive! When the three year mark passed, I had gotten to the point where I had forced myself to push him out of my mind, convinced that I would never see him again. I was devistated, that one of my closest friends would discard me like that, it was painful. Then I got word that he had moved back. A week later I received a phone call, it was him. We talked for about an hour. I saw him for the first time in three years in July of last year. We are closer now than ever before. I could've told him that he crushed me when he disappeared, I could've harbored that anger and resentment in my heart and not forgiven him. I could've, but I didn't. Now, in retrospect, I realize that if I had, I would have robbed myself of a friendship with one of the greatest people I have ever known. I am beyond thankful that my heart had the ability to let all those bad feelings go and forgive him. Please forgive people for whatever they have done. You might be missing out on something amazing.

Answer 5

Forgiving is good for the person doing the forgiving. Chances are that the person being forgiven doesn't give a rats a** anyway.

Answer 6

Yes, forgiveness makes you a bigger person and without forgiveness our society would kill each other until the end of mankind. I live by a simple rule forgive but don't forget.

Answer 7

Forgiveness is situational. I'd say if there is regret or the person does not understand or know better, then very well yes. If it provokes the situation to be worse, then no, you shouldn't blurt out that you forgive. It doesn't meant that you don't.

Answer 8

it is not only right to forgive, it is liberating to forgive...i say this out of experience, being a forgiver...these days i don't much concern myself with weather or not someone has forgiven me in the final analysis i don't think it will make any difference there, but me forgiving makes all the difference in the world how i persue life and joy.

Answer 9

Who's to say whats right or wrong. It depends on what it is I guess. My maid of honor slept with my husband when I was asleep in the other room. No, I didnt forgive her.... but My sister stained my favorite shirt. That I forgave.

Answer 10

Often, but not always. Some people will never learn their lesson until people stop forgiving them and start to alienate them. You might help a person by not forgiving them.