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The Hologram of Forgiveness

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While struggling with the issues of justice and mercy, forgiveness and responsibility, I was meditating on the Bible as a hologram (something I have been doing since seeing some paintings of the Crucifixion in more dimensions and having been blessed with some insight into God's multidimensional existence in Scripture)

:idea: I am beginning to see that it is the repeated instance of a sin through all the instances of the sinner's existence that is the black mark on the soul, and by not forgiving, the victim and the other witnesses multiply the repetitions of that black mark through their memories.

This is making it easier to meditate on forgiving the sin and to throw my spiritual energy into at least not multiplying the wound through all these infinite hologramic existences of the moment of the sin.

Am I making sense? :sorry:


(It also offers some insight into the Catholic concept of absolution by a priest being given to the sinner himself, even though the work of Christ made that action less important than it once was, and further supports rejection of scandal-ridden popular media.)
 
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