The Madness of Unforgiveness: What is Forgiveness?
by David Chadwick
What is forgiveness? Well, if we look at the dictionary definition from Merriam Webster, it means "to cease to feel resentment against an offender."
Biblically, forgiveness releases someone of the debt once owed. It's a significant display of love, ultimately mirroring what was displayed to us by Jesus.
Forgiveness is extraordinarily powerful and, like grace, sets apart the Christian faith from all the other world religions.
On a practical level, if bitterness can be described as "drinking poison and expecting the person who hurt you to die," then forgiveness is the release…
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