FORGIVENESS IN CHRISTIANITY

Forgiveness is the essence of Christian teaching. Jesus Christ, throughout His life, taught all those around to forgive between themselves. Jesus is full of love. He is the incarnation of love. Forgiveness is the outcome of love. There cannot be any forgiveness without love and vice versa.

In today's world forgiveness is confined to a few words like sorry, excuse etc and limited to a sum called compensation. Even loss of life is compensated with money, that too by variable sums from person to person. In Christianity forgiveness is relief from the punishment for sins. The agony of man in any forms like disease, pain, hunger, poverty, failures etc are the results of the negative energy contained in oneself. This negative energy is not created overnight but accumulated through generations. These negative powers can be eliminated by one method only, forgiveness by Lord God in the form of Son of Man. When Jesus cured a leper, restored eyesight to a blind one, brought a disabled one to normal state etc He had absorbed the negative energy into Himself and made the victim free from it. This is confirmed in the gospel of St Mathew 8:17. "He took our infirmities upon himself, and bore our sicknesses."

Jesus also told not to forgive under conditions or limits. Mathew 18:22 says: "I tell thee to forgive, not seven wrongs, but seventy times seven." We believe that until God the Father forgive our sins we cannot enter the kingdom of God. Jesus made the forgiveness by the Father to our choice. " ... forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us." Here it is conditional to our preference. If we we forgive those who err against us God the Father shall also forgive our errors.  The prayer of Jesus to God to forgive those who tortured and hanged Him on the cross to kill, was the supreme act of forgiveness. "Father, forgive them; they do not know what it is they are doing." (Luke 23:34)

One cannot be called a Christian unless he bears unfathomable love and forgiveness. With these two, anyone can live anytime anywhere with utmost peace.

KV George

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