Today is Worldwide Forgiveness Day, sponsored by the Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance, a 501 (c)3 non-profit tax exempt charity. Their mission is "to evoke the healing spirit of Forgiveness worldwide," and to teach and certify thousands of Forgiveness Life Skill Teachers. They quote Dr. Gerald Jampolsky, "Forgiveness is the greatest healer of them all." That's a whole lot of forgiveness.
http://www.forgivenessday.org
This is an interfaith organization and they seem to go out of their way to not mention Jesus or Christianity though they do mention other faiths. The whole thing seems to be "feel-goodism," based on the idea that if we would all just be good and forgive one another, everything would be all right. This is thin and filmy with no underlying power to sustain it, based only on good intentions.
Christians are commanded to forgive without limits (Luke 17:4). Unforgiveness is one of the most horrible of sins (Matthew 18:34-35; Luke 15:28-30). Christians are to forgive because God has forgiven us. We are to be like God who sought out the offender (us) to redeem him.
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