Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-14847494-20151204023742/@comment-27437373-20151229014859

SouthWriter wrote: SouthWriter wrote: SoD, your first response missed the point. I was responding only to the last statement -- about forgiveness.

Then, you got the point, though not understanding it. "Forgiveness" is not what you think it is. We only have God's word to go on here, and he starts it out with sacrifices pointing to reconciliation. The final sacrifice -- that of Jesus Christ -- was prefigured from the earliest times. It was the point of the whole tabernacle and system of holidays. And it all came together when Jesus came to earth -- the "reason for the season."

Have a blessed Christmas, in spite of your self. :-)

SonsOfDemons wrote:

1. You don't need to be a Christian to celebrate holidays.

2. What's so hard about forgiveness.

3. Sacrifice has NOTHING to do with forgiveness.


 * 1) I said nothing against your celebrating holidays -- be what they may be. You can even celebrate "Christian" holidays in your own way.
 * 2) In short, saying you forgive someone of a wrong done to you is not as easy on you as you may think. If you continue to trust the wrongdoer, then you have no way of knowing if they will not do you wrong again. If you do not trust them, then forgetting the wrong does not help you at all.
 * 3) You are using the term "forgive" in a derived sense. The primary meaning has a legal and/or financial component. Only secondarily does forgiveness mean to "cease" an attitude of resentment. See this dictionary entry.

2. But I certainly wouldn't kill anybody or myself to forgive somebody.

3. Finance is money, not death.