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DIVINE FORGIVENESS

THE FOCUS OF THE BISHOP'S CORNER

Because I believe this is a part of our life through Christ that we need to do (forgive)

(Repent) being obedient to God our Father learning humility, just knowing how to be humble before God, forgiving one another and one self to better yourself in the kingdom of God.

Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;(Ps.103:3)

When we look at {(Matt.6:12) And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors}.

This entire idea of the ransom of the atonement places salvation upon a place of unreality;

such a concept is purely philosophic. Human salvation is real; it is based on two realities which may grasped by the creature's faith and thereby become incorporated into individual human experience: the fact of the fatherhood of God and its correlated truth, the brotherhood of man. It is true, after all, that you are to be forgiven your debts, even as you forgive your debtors. (Matt 6:14) For if ye forgive men their trespasses your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Now let us look at the definition of (trespass):To commit an offense or sin; transgress or err. (Mark 11:25) And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive your trespass}. Your inability or willingness to forgive your fellows is the measure of your immaturity, your failure to attain adult sympathy, understanding, and love. You hold grudges and nurse vengefulness in direct proportion to your ignorance of the inner nature and true longings of your children and your fellow beings. Love is the outworking of the divine and inner urge of life. It is founded on understanding, nurtured by unselfish service, and perfected in wisdom. (Luke 6:37) Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemn : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. It is so easy to do but we must not point fingers at no one take that mote out of your own eye before we judge or condemn another. (1 John 1:9) If we confess our sins, He(God) is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ancient man only attained consciousness of favor with God through sacrifice. Modern man must develop new techniques of achieving the self-consciousness of salvation. The consciousness of sin persists in the mortal mind, but the thought patterns of salvation therefrom have become outworn and antiquated. The reality of spiritual need persists, but intellectual progress has destroyed the olden ways of securing peace and consolation for mind and soul.

Sin must be redefined as a deliberate disloyalty to Diety. There are degrees of disloyalty: the partial loyalty of indecision; the divided loyalty of confliction; the dying loyalty of indifference; and the death of loyalty exhibited in devotion to godless ideals.

The sense or feeling of guilt is the consciousness of the violation of the mores; it is not necessarily sin. There is no real sin in the absence of conscious disloyalty to Deity.

The possibility of the recognition of the sense of guilt is a badge of transcendent distinction for mankind. It does not mark man as mean but rather sets him apart as a creature of potential greatness and ever-ascending glory. Such a sense of unworthiness is the initial stimulus that should lead quickly and surely to those faith conquests which translate the mortal mind to the superb levels of moral nobility, cosmic insight, and spiritual insight, and spiritual living; thus are all the meanings of human existence changed from the temporal to the eternal, and all values are elevated from the human to the divine.

The confession of sin is a manful repudiation of disloyalty, but it in no wise mitigates the time-space consequences of such disloyalty, But confession---sincere recognition of the nature of sin---is essential to religious growth and spiritual progress.

The forgiveness of sin by Diety is the renewal of loyalty relations following a period of the human consciousness of the lapse of such relations as the consequence of conscious re bellion. The forgiveness does not have to be sought, only received as the consciousness of re-establishment of loyalty relations between the creature and the Creator. And all the loyal sons of God are happy, service-loving, and ever-progressive in the Paradise ascent.

Well, Praise God, I just want to also say; That our GOD is an all Merciful, all Caring, and all Loving GOD; who wants a one on one relationship with his children, all we need to do,is, open our hearts and let Him in , and He will free us from our sins, so even if we do wrong and we no it God is Faithful and Just and will forgive all we have to do is ask, with a sincere heart and a made up mind that we will pick up our cross and follow after Him(JESUS).all the days of our lives,God knows that we sometimes fall short to the glory of God; God knows that we make mistakes God knows that were spirit-human,but God knows that His thoughts are higher than our thoughts and His ways are higher than our ways,yet He still forgives when we ask.

So let's just Trust in the Lord with all our heart ;and lean not unto our own understanding; and all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct our path (Proverbs 3:5,6) AMEN.

May the Lord keep you and richly Bless you until we meet again.

(to read more on Divine Forgiveness go to the Urantia Book paper 174)