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So, God doesn't have to live by his own standard of righteousness?Yes, He commands us to forgive.
Ephesians 4:32 says, "forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you."
So, we are not told to forgive only as a gesture, or merely in order to make sure we don't miss out on being forgiven. But we are told to forgive . . . "even as God", which to me means in sharing with God in us changing our character so we are forgiving in the kind and generously forgiving and adoptive way that God has forgiven us.
And Jesus in His heart was suffering and dying with desire for us to be forgiven. So, right in His heart on Calvary, Jesus already forgave us.
But . . . there is the matter of character in every human. A person's character can make him or her unable to benefit from the forgiveness being offered but refused.
Look at how certain people do what is ruining them and their bodies. They need forgiveness, but discriminatory ministers are saying they do not need forgiveness. Right now, there is discrimination against certain wrong people, by saying they don't need to be forgiven, but are ok.
And those wrong people have the character to be fooled by this and miss out.
The forgiveness lives in God's love and Jesus Christ's way of loving. So, it is here, but ones keep refusing to trust in Jesus so they can be corrected and tuned in the wavelength of how God's love has us enjoying forgiveness while we give this to others.
You can't have this forgiveness without living it, I offer
Saint Steven said: ↑
6. Does God ask us to forgive our enemies when He is ultimately not willing to do the same in the end?
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