Looks like I might soon be LBS...newcomer here

[TrentC]

I have a question~ how can you believe in God and not believe in forgiveness? I have never been a grudgeholder and I don't get it. I'd like to think that I don't let people walk all over me, but I also don't let other people take away my joy. How can you not forgive and still be happy? This has always bugged me about H.

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I will keep praying that he finds GOD. He is a very spiritual person, but not religious. And while I don't think that being religious is required to be able to forgive, I think that knowing GOD instead of just believing helps with that understanding.

I posted some links to some downloadable sermons from my church. One of them, Love Lets It Go, talks about this very thing.

It's pretty cut and dried in Matthew 6:14-15

For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.

Some people choose to interpret this as, you will be forgiven by God in proportion to the amount of forgiveness that you extend.