John 20:23
If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."
2007-05-14 06:16:54 · 13 answers · asked by Hamzeh 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it means that if someone does you wrong and you don't forgive them then they aren't forgiven BY YOU. but they can be forgiven by God if the will confess it to him and ask for forgiveness.
Ephesians 4:32 ( KJV ) And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, FORGIVING one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
2007-05-14 06:34:12 · answer #1 · answered by Favre's #1 GIRL Fan!! :) 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
Forgiveness is given, have faith is earned. as quickly as we opt to forgive somebody it does no longer recommend that we are excusing what they have achieved. To be common with you, actual forgiveness can only come as quickly as we've labored interior the path of the emotions that we've. If somebody harms us in an quite undesirable way, we could continuously no longer merely bypass to them and say "oh do no longer concern approximately it, it grow to be no longer something,you're forgiven. What did the magazine say?
2016-10-15 23:04:43 · answer #2 · answered by virgin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No- the Lord will forgive who he chooses to forgive. One person will not be condemend because of the choices of others. We are responsible only for our own choices, not for others. You need to forgive everyone, but if you don't the Lord still may. Whether or not he forgives them- is between him and the sinner.
2007-05-14 06:34:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't believe God judges a person based on your discretion. That verse may have been slightly mistranslated for all we know. I do believe that if you do not forgive someone, YOU will not be forgiven.
2007-05-14 06:20:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. He was talking to his Apostles in that section. Certain people are, "called of God, as was Aaron." In other words, God calls certain people to be judges, such as apostles of Jesus Christ. This authority is called the Priesthood and is not something that can be assumed. Someone must be ordained to the Priesthood by someone who already has the authority.
The following article describes the restoration of the Priesthood of God in modern times: http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=b4f4055b23710110VgnVCM1000003a94610aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=1ca36db0580a1110VgnVCM100000176f620a____
2007-05-14 06:45:08 · answer #5 · answered by Bryan Kingsford 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
This seems to be power given to the apostles of Jesus at that time I really can't see it still happening at this time, sorry to disappoint anyone.
2007-05-14 06:24:45 · answer #6 · answered by S.O.S. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not unless you're an Apostle or one of their successors, the bishops and priests of today, who act in the person of Christ to administer the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
(I'm guessing you're not.)
2007-05-14 09:33:17 · answer #7 · answered by Girl of the Forest 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Results of sin are not immediate which confuses people. Punishment or Karma is inevitable
2007-05-14 06:21:26 · answer #8 · answered by Thomas Paine 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
john 20:23 say whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.
you have did what God told you to do. that is to forgive your brothers. ask them to forgive you. and you forgive them.
psalms 103:3 say who forgiveth all thie iniquities; who healeth all thy diseased; who are we that we can not forgive
God forgive us daily.
2007-05-14 06:39:49 · answer #9 · answered by NANCY L 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He is not talking to you. He is talking to the apostles. He does not say that the apostles can pass this ability on to others, like priests. This is clear if you read the surrounding sentences.
2007-05-14 06:26:15 · answer #10 · answered by cmw 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋