What is forgiveness? Do you forgive?

Answer 1

Forgiveness is allowing others to be who they are and moving on with your life.Forgiveness does not mean you must stay in contact with a person. It just means that you do not hold a grudge or wish them any harm just because you were hurt. Forgiveness is realizing that it is not up to you to punish those who cause you harm. It is up to you to stop the suffering and find ways to move forward with your life.
Forgiveness is also recognizing yourself in the other. It is
knowing that being hurt is a direct result of ones lack of awareness. Taking responsibility for your own part in allowing your pain.
A lack of forgiveness only cripples the unforgiving and causes more suffering in the world. Forgiveness is easy, it is the lack of forgiveness that is painful.

Yes - I allow all to be as it is, it can be no other way.

Answer 2

The forgiveness of God is crucial for our salvation. Forgiveness is a release of anger towards another...to let go of the anger.

If God does not forgive your sins, then you are not saved. Therefore to be saved we must not only accept Jesus into our hearts but we must forgive others.

Mat 6:14-15 "If you forgive others the wrongs they have done to you, your Father in heaven will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive the wrongs you have done."

Don't forgive...lose salvation.

In 1 Tim 5:8 Paul speaks to Timothy about the conduct of believers, he says "if any do not take care of their relatives, especially the members of their own family, they have denied the faith and are worse than an unbeliever. "

Don't take care of immediate familly...lose salvation

and many more examples.

God Bless
Robin

Answer 3

Forgiveness is a central and unique insight of Christianity that is not clearly presented by any other faith.

Forgiveness means:
1. To excuse for a fault or an offense; pardon.
2. To renounce anger or resentment against.
3. To absolve from payment of (a debt, for example).
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/forgive

Thus, forgiveness restores a damaged relationship by letting an offense not count. This means we no longer feel anger or resentment about it.

To forgive doesn't require us to forget, but simply not to dwell on what happened. We put it aside as past history and no longer relevant to the present.

Jesus gives forgiveness instructions in Luke 17: " "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says, 'I repent,' forgive him."

Note that forgiveness ordinarily follows repentance. Until we regret an action and resolve to stop doing wrong, we can't be forgiven.

Jesus explained (Matthew 6:15): "But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins." If anyone has wronged us and repents, we cannot maintain a good relationship with God if we don't forgive the person. In other words, we become wrongdoers.

Which is why I do forgive.

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 4

Forgiveness is saying to yourself or another person, that even if you don't condone what he/she did or said, you still love that person. Forgiveness, does not mean forgetting though. We can forgive others all we want or feel we need to, but this does not require us to forget whatever anyone did to hurt us. Also, if you yourself feel you wronged a person, maybe by saying something mean, you can say you're sorry, but it's up to the other person to decide to "forgive" you or not, but that doesn't mean you have to quit being nice to that person or saying you're sorry. God forgives you, even if someone else won't.
realme1960

Answer 5

One defenition of forgiveness I read is that it is a flower clinging to the shoe that crushes it. That is how I feel sometimes. I forgive but the same person wrongs me over and over again. I can't seem to boot them out of my life forever. So I think it is about expecting that people will be human and hurt you. It takes me a very long to time to actually forgive.

Answer 6

Forgiveness is understanding that it is not your place to judge others and being able to move on with no hate in your heart for the mistakes that other people make.
Yes I forgive because life is too short not to.

Answer 7

Forgiveness is when you pick a flower and it still smells nice.

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I'm not perfect, but I'm doing my best not to hold grudges. Sometimes it means I have to swallow my ego and overlook things, sometimes it's achieved by simply talking things over, sometimes by a thing so simple as a hug.

And sometimes it's simply not possible. The secret lies in admitting that some bridges simply cannot be rebuilt and that maybe it's for the best.
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Answer 8

forgiveness is easy...forgetting is not so easy. For me forgiveness is not so much a religion thing, but a healing thins. Ya ever notice when you are holding anger or grudges, it hurts you more than the person who you are holding them against. that person goes on with life not even bothered by your lack of forgiveness, while it can eat away at you, so I believe in forgiveness for healing and moving on, but I also believe in not forgetting, so it does not happen again

Answer 9

IMO "forgiveness" is understanding that someone else's behaviors, thoughts, etc. arise due to causes and conditions, are changing and impermanent. Also I understand that certain behaviors, thoughts, etc. can only "offend" or cause me harm, mostly, if I let them. So needing me to "forgive" anyone isn't a necessity very often.

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Answer 10

1. act of forgiving; state of being forgiven.
2. disposition or willingness to forgive