It is a maxim that remorse precedes forgiveness on the simple basis that a wrong-doer must first acknowledge his sin.
After all, how can one forgive someone who has caused you harm when he or she does not admit it and experience genuine remorse? There can be no forgiveness without repentance:
repent | rəˈpent |
verb [no object]
feel or express sincere regret or remorse about one’s wrongdoing or sin: the priest urged his listeners to repent | he repented of his action.
• [with object] view or think of (an action or omission) with deep regret or remorse: Marian came to repent her hasty judgment.
• (repent oneself) archaic feel regret or penitence about: I repent me of all I did.
If the fact that if the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby’s blatantly unholy pronouncements on the 3 Dart Finish and how Jesus would have rolled up his sleeve to accept the arm-spear does not raise doubts about his actual connection to his true maker, his suggestion that Prince Andrew of the criminal House of Windsor be forgiven for something he has not admitted and didn’t do (£12m is a lot of money to pay for something you didn’t do) would certainly suggest he is a fraud. Welby, it is reassonable to posit, is an imposter, an actor adrifit in a swamp of his own contemptible cuntwaffle, who espouses the same bilious horseshit as his satanic overlords.
How interesting too that he is a former oil industry executive – an industry that is up to its neck in fraud and which provides the key ingredient for all of Big Pharma’s satanic produce.
And, now, as the wobbly shit-parade that was the phoney jubilee staggers to an anti-climatic end and vomits in the squalid gutter of its manifest falsity, it appears that he has no true understanding of the real nature of repentence and forgiveness:
At a big public occasion the Queen is fully entitled to have one of her children supporting her. Secondly, forgiveness really does matter. I think we have become a very, very unforgiving society. There’s a difference between consequences and forgiveness.”
Going by this pronouncement, the satanist, masquerading as Archbishop, is gaslighting the sheep into accepting the erroneous notion that an individual can be forgiven his wrong-doings without any show of genuine contrition or repentance.
Remember, Prince Andrew paid a woman £12 million pounds in compensation for something he claims he did not buy or do. Rather than admit the facts of the matter, he, by nature of his access to great wealth, has been able to avoid any opportunity to repent.
For Justin Welby to be apparently incapable of understanding the essential truth that a man has to repent of his sins before he can be forgiven would be shocking were it not for the abominable collaboration of the Church with the Criminal UK Gov and its deep state controllers.
This act of treason has, at every turn of the sordid narrative, caused grotesque harm to the physical, spiritual and psychological well-being of a population that has been murmured into compliance by the deployment of mountainous levels of brain-rinsing and propaganda, carried out at the behest of the WEF and WHO. Such collaboration with outside entities to the detriment of the people is as good a definition of a traitor as it gets.
traitor | ˈtrādər | noun a person who betrays a friend, country, principle, etc.: they see me as a traitor, a sellout to the enemy.
PHRASES turn traitor betray a group or person: to think of a man like you turning traitor to his class.
ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French traitour, from Latin traditor, from tradere ‘hand over’.
If a sin is a wrong-doing, and God knows we have numerous examples of such around us right now, in every sphere of life, then the emphasis is on the individual to repent and ask for forgiveness:
Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper,
but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”Proverbs 28:13
Here’s something else the Bishop would do well to heed:
Psalm 1
“1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
God knows we are approaching a time when there will be a tsunami of individuals who, upon realising the full extent of the crimes they have personally perpetrated under the guise of a genocide by needlepoint and a phoney plandemic, will be full of remorse and therefore genuinely repentant.
Will they be forgiven? They have to be, for that is the way of God and who are we to demur?
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I’d simply like to say that I have fostered the act of forgiveness over the past couple of decades, as a healing tool for my own sanity. With narcissists, psychopaths, sociopaths etc, they will often lie rather than repent, because it is uncomfortable for them to take actual responsibility & hold themselves to account. That would require integrity, which they don’t have. So, forgiveness as a healing tool is highly beneficial for one’s own mental/emotional health, as it can restore a state of grace, deeply sought after following the great hurt that the act of betrayal leaves in its’ wake. The betrayal however is not to be forgotten. One can even find pity for the perpetrator, upon reflection, as they could have amounted to so much more in this life, once their true potential has been seen etc, but this refers more to personal, intimate relationships, rather than the renegade acts of men/women in public office. I simply speak from experience in the former case, such as with ex- partners, family members, close friends etc.
Thank you for that, jules. It is a quandary. For me, and in regard to those personal to us who have ‘trespassed against us’ (to put it mildly) and not admitted to their wrong-doings, there literally can be no forgiveness. All we can do is acknowledge the wrong-doing and come to some kind of peace with it, knowing that, ultimately, God’s in charge. Maybe forgiveness is the wrong term in such circumstances. Letting go of it will lead to peace, along with excommunication of the other.
This is a good discussion. I understand what Jules is saying as well. At the same time, perhaps we do need a different word for this action of Jules, such as compassion?
I notice in our society there is a forgiveness cramdown! People are told they cannot heal unless they forgive the person who hurt them. It is demanded that one focus on perpetrators as the most important part of being well. I think that is a destructive idea.
It isn’t necessary for a victim to feel pity, care or concern if they don’t feel these things. Forcing this on others is asking people to lie about what they really think and feel. That itself is evil.
And most certainly, forgiveness, like repentance is a spiritual act. It does not relieve a person of consequences for their actions.
Hi, Jill.
I agree: it is impossible to ‘dispense’ forgiveness when there is no contrition and your point about forcing a victim to forgive is, as you state, evil or, at least, manifestly nonsensical. Invariably, the only way to deal with the narcissistic/other personality types who inflict cruelty on others is by removing oneself from their ‘orbit’. Such types can – literally – never be forgiven on the simple basis that their superiority complex prevents them from understanding that their behaviour is wrong. In their eyes, the victim gets what he deserves.
Hi RM, There is a whole wing of the “therapeutic community” which demands victims forgive those who harmed them, saying they will never heal until they forgive. I’ve never seen this”therapeutic” contingent say that the victimizer should ask for forgiveness, show remorse or contrition. They never talk about the victimizer as someone who should fully acknowledge their crime or the pain they caused. Do you have any thoughts on why this group apparently identifies w/those who hurt?
I certainly agree with you that the person committing harm does not (or isn’t likely to) ever actually show contrition (some people do). But why does this group identify w/abusers instead of supporting their victims? I’ve know so many people who were made to feel guilty and ashamed because they couldn’t forgive. A lot of people just said they forgave so they wouldn’t be hassled by their therapist or group. What are your thoughts?
Hi, Jill. What you describe sounds like a recipe for absolution that is of benefit only to the perpetrator of the harm. The Church has made a pretty penny from charging people for theirs; an absolution that can be bought is about as big an aspecct of the organised religion swindle as can be imagined.
For those who are not genuinely contrite, it is simply not within our capabilities to forgive. At which point, the matter is between the wrong-doer and the creator.
All of which would tend to support your view that the victim is being lead down a blind alley when it comes to them being expected to forgive.
For the end, A Psalm of David, upon the eighth.
Save me, O Lord; for the godly man has failed; for truth is diminished from among the children of men.
Every one has spoken vanity to his neighbour: their lips are deceitful, they have spoken with a double heart.
Let the Lord destroy all the deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaks great words:
who have said, We will magnify our tongue; our lips are our own: who is Lord of us?
Because of the misery of the poor, and because of the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord, I will set [them] in safety; I will speak [to them] thereof openly.
The oracles of the Lord are pure oracles; as silver tried in the fire, proved [in] a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
Thou, O Lord, shalt keep us, and shalt preserve us, from this generation, and for ever.
The ungodly walk around: according to thy greatness thou has greatly exalted the sons of men.
Psalm 12