Soyeong
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If I am owed money, as a person, I do have the ability to cancel that debt. I am not paying it off. I am simply choosing to tell the person who owes me that s/he no longer owes me any money. If I am not the one owed, I can't cancel the debt. I have to pay it off.
So, in the parable Jesus told, He equated God to the king who forgave/cancelled the debt (suggesting the debt was owed to God).
If someone owed me $1,000, there would be no difference between me cancelling their debt and me giving them $1,000 so that they can pay their debt to me, or giving them $1,000 so that they can pay their debt to someone else. In all of these situations I would be giving them $1,000 in order to pay their debt in their place.
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