Question: 1. FORGIVENESS MUST NOT ONLY BE RECEIVED, IT MUST BE GIVEN.
Answer: We believe that God forgives us for our sins, but also that He will not do so unless we forgive other people their sins against us.
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Question: 2. SOMETIMES WE ARE CONFUSED BY WHAT WE WANT WHEN ASKING TO BE FORGIVEN
Answer: I am asking him not to forgive me but to excuse me
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Question: 3. BEING EXCUSED IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING FORGIVEN
Answer: Forgiveness and excusing are almost opposites.
- Asking God for forgiveness means that you are truly sorry for something.
-. If you are constantly doing something repeatedly and then asking God for forgiveness, all you are really doing is trying to excuse yourself to make yourself better.
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Question: 4. TO BELIEVE IN THE FORIGVENESS OF SINS MEANS THAT YOU HAVE NO NEED TO HIDE FROM GOD.
Answer: Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sins that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been made, and seeing it all its horror you are being wholly reconciled to the person who was done it.
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Question: 5. FORGIVING OTHERS MEANS TO APPLY THE SAME STANDARD TO OTHERS THAT GOD HAS PROMISED HE APPLIES TO YOU
Answer: To be a christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in us.
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Question: 6. FORGIVENESS IS HARD WORK
Answer: By remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it, means we are refusing God's mercy for ourselves.
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Question: 1. FORGIVENESS MUST NOT ONLY BE RECEIVED, IT MUST BE GIVEN. Answer: We believe that God forgives us for our sins, but also that He will not do so unless we forgive other people their sins against us. ================================================== Question: 2. SOMETIMES WE ARE CONFUSED BY WHAT WE WANT WHEN ASKING TO BE FORGIVEN Answer: I am asking him not to forgive me but to excuse me ================================================== Question: 3. BEING EXCUSED IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING FORGIVEN Answer: Forgiveness and excusing are almost opposites. - Asking God for forgiveness means that you are truly sorry for something. -. If you are constantly doing something repeatedly and then asking God for forgiveness, all you are really doing is trying to excuse yourself to make yourself better. ================================================== Question: 4. TO BELIEVE IN THE FORIGVENESS OF SINS MEANS THAT YOU HAVE NO NEED TO HIDE FROM GOD. Answer: Real forgiveness means looking steadily at the sin, the sins that is left over without any excuse, after all allowances have been made, and seeing it all its horror you are being wholly reconciled to the person who was done it. ================================================== Question: 5. FORGIVING OTHERS MEANS TO APPLY THE SAME STANDARD TO OTHERS THAT GOD HAS PROMISED HE APPLIES TO YOU Answer: To be a christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in us. ================================================== Question: 6. FORGIVENESS IS HARD WORK Answer: By remembering where we stand, by meaning our words when we say in our prayers each night, we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it, means we are refusing God's mercy for ourselves. ==================================================