The scandalousness of God’s indiscriminate forgiveness hits us even harder when we are called on to imitate it.\u00c2\u00a0 When we need to forgive, most of us, perhaps unconsciously, feel entitled to draw a circle around the scope of forgiveness.\u00c2\u00a0 We should forgive some, maybe even most, wrongdoings, but certainly not all.<\/p>\n
Maybe we think unintentional offenses are forgivable, and deliberate ones are not.\u00c2\u00a0 But how would we draw the line?\u00c2\u00a0 How intentional would the offense need to be?\u00c2\u00a0 If the offense were truly unintentional, there would be something to be sorry about but nothing to forgive; it was just an accident.\u00c2\u00a0 Or maybe we think small offenses are forgivable, and horrendous ones are not.\u00c2\u00a0 But again, where would we draw the line?\u00c2\u00a0 An offense is an offense and has as much right to be forgiven as any other, which is no right at all.\u00c2\u00a0 No line separates offenses that should be forgiven from those that should not.\u00c2\u00a0 There are no unforgivable sins.<\/em><\/p>\n — Miroslav Volf, Free of Charge, <\/em>p. 178-179<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The scandalousness of God’s indiscriminate forgiveness hits us even harder when we are called on to imitate it.\u00c2\u00a0 When we need to forgive, most of us, perhaps unconsciously, feel entitled to draw a circle around the scope of forgiveness.\u00c2\u00a0 We should forgive some, maybe even most, wrongdoings, but certainly not all. Maybe we think unintentional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forgiveness","category-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}