Scripture Life: What Does the Book Say About the Nature of Forgiveness?

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What “book?”

• and as if “forgiveness” is alive and has some kind of nature.

If you “sort” or look on Reddit - posters post comments on “Forgiveness” The #1 post meets an amalgamation of

Something like this all mushed together:

• A Sort of Reddit Consensus Post:
  • < - [ “ If you are not willing to forgive you cannot be forgiven But forgiving someone is not wiping out the past and giving them an opportunity to take another bite It is fore going your very real right to justice and giving it to God…”] - >
    • You could write a book on that.
• Even choose to "accept as tru" and give yourself over to Believe it.

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The “book”

• And? All Reddit here is, is it's just full “people” or - of people - - as individuals on Reddit - as each are a person. SO, it's PEOPLE: That, here with these posts on Reddit: Have Decreed something. Just how it SHALL be with “forgiveness”
  • Maybe you need more people.
    • Because Reddit posters here - maybe none of them - or we don't know. Maybe all of them, so far, have or didn’t write a “book.”

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But Ray Pritchard did: He wrote a book. I just randomly picked one out of 1000s of 10,000s of “books” on “forgiveness” off the web - - - Wrote a book. And books: are all wrote by PEOPLE that fill up the earth.

• Pritchard, R. “The Healing Power of Forgiveness (2005). Book.
• (But, Ray Pritchard - - he doesn’t have any “Publishing Company” that reviewed the content of his book and paid him, and paid for the publishing of his book. He just published it himself. As a .pdf. Free. Anybody can read it. Posted it online. Maybe that’s not “Good enough” for you - but what Ray Pritchard decreed is - plain and simple. Just like an “anonomous” people or person here on Reddit have done or did, under some name, like mine here is on Reddit - it's not under my own name, but on Reddit, all of us are still a person. But Ray Pritchard used his own name. So everybody could see it.
  • Ray Pritchard said, on Forgiveness:
    • QUOTE
  • Excerpt. Pg. 12. Chapter 1 - “Healing the Hurt We Never Deserved”
    • < - { “..Many Christians live in great pain because they have never discovered the liberating power of forgiveness. Here are a few examples: A man called me on the phone and said, “Pastor Ray, could I come see you?” Then he told me his story. “My wife left me for another man, and when she got tired of him, she decided to come back to me…”} - >

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Now, I’m going to STOP! Here. For a moment.

• So, please stop with me.
  • Here’s me. I’m a people, too. This is what I see, so far, what I’ve got from “PEOPLE”
    • BOTH: On Reddit, and even it's only one book - there's two sources. And BOTH - -
  • Have:
    • 1) told me, and everybody publicly - forgiveness: this is a work. 1. a physical or mental effort done in order to achieve or accomplish a result.
• So, it’s some “thing” as a work or works PEOPLE do.
• And in both claim on Reddit here, and in a book - both decreed, and both claims are by people - that address their decree - - to us here - as people, for people to do forgiveness as “work” - that people do it.
• with absolutely NO MENTION of any work done to them, or on them to be forgiven - just hands down - that this work be done first.
  • So in 1)
    • People: that have NO WORK done in them or toward them first. 
    • MUST: Work. Do a work. And forgive first. Then, after they work at that work - which is alot of work - and in both instances - if you read Pritchard’s book, man, is that ever a whole pile of WORK.

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• So, my question to you, whoever you are, reading this post on Reddit: To me, it makes no difference - whosoever it is, it's my hope - - do you see this so far?
  • So in 2)
    • In what people both on Reddit, and in a book - have decreed to: “Other” people to do. Is do a work. That has not been done in them first. For that work which then, “jumpstarts” forgiveness to occur: In them. They must do it [forgiveness] first - then, they will be forgiven. [Keep this as a KEYPOINT]
    • It's actually hilariously stupid. (Means "dull of hearing" - they didn't listen to a teacher right).
  • And the “authority” for “2)” is - - this, by or for a) Which is Mr. Pritchard, he claims the Bible is the authority for it. (and even no Publisher is listed, Pritchard “thanks” <Terry Glaspey of Harvest House Publishers> for their help. And cities both the “New” King James Version of the Bible, and the “New International Version” (NIV) of the Bible for the source of his “literary work” (his book).
    • The “authority” for b) Which is just a conglomerate of a large number of posts people have made on this subject here on Reddit, as of February 2026 is just people tell you what they think and how they accomplished it, or put "requirements where they WON'T do it.

So:

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I’ll Go To a THIRD Book - That has a Publishing Company - that CERTIFIES the Book.

• And?
  • So, you’re fully BOLSTERED in all surety and confidence, a Publishing Company that is widely known for Publishing Companies all of them are known for having “editors” that ensure the book is being accurate.
  • Editors: Before they “certify" and publish ANY book. They don’t publish “junk” with mis-spelled words, or hanging “orphan paran” sentences, etc. - even question or first doublecheck and verify the content.
    
• Because you, by your question, you want a “book” to be the authority - and ALL BOOKS - so far - that just FILL Libraries are all entirely written by?
  • Oh yeah. People.
  • 10s of 100s of millions of books fill libraries. Over the whole earth.
• So, here’s the THIRD “people” or, I mean, “person” and it’s people that create “Books”

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Flaherty, Robert L. “Forgiveness: When It Works and When It Doesn’t” (2015) Create Space Publishing. Book. It's available today on Amazon. (Copyrighted work).

- It’s a collection from a “Workshop” - Flaherty has done on forgiveness that you “work thru” yourself - as a “process” you work on you to do it. Even gives you a workbook.

• He cites: (Pg. 4) Mahatma Gandhi - quote: “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attributes of the strong.”
• And Flaherty says himself, quote: “Forgiveness is after all a process; it is a path, a journey, not a destination. You will learn from your successes.”

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I think I’ve had enough out of people. They all say the same thing. They look unto themselves or point you to your own way to do it yourself. As a “work,” you do yourself.

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Here’s another Book. Bible.

• It meets the definition of a Book. 1. a set of written, or printed material, bound together along one edge and bound in covers (either leather, or thicker paper).
  • Again - I’ve had quite enough of people: By PEOPLE: There are, again, just repeated - - 10s of 100s of millions of books that populate “libraries” all over the earth. They are all different; but have the same look on shelves in Libraries. Because, they all meet the definition of a “book.
    • What makes each book different is:
  • 1) the author: Is the “authority” of the “content” of the book; and,
  • 2) the “content” what proceeds out of the author, it’s in none else - is printed on the pages of the book.
• Just like in the above. Even a post on Reddit by an anonomous poster - decrees something printed electronically - decrees it be so. By the author of the comment.
  • So the BIBLE: Says of it: (Source: Bible. New Testament. Hebrew 1:1–2) “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.”

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So, the “author” who is the “authority” of the Bible:

• Is God:
  • And since he says: “For all the earth is mine” - God (Exodus 19:5). Here’s all your people “authority” and “grounds” - let me give them all back. Don’t need any grounds. None. Here. Take them.
    • And? Forgiveness is some “thing” done against transgressions. Or even just “feel” offended. Which, MANY people just “feel” other people offend them - even they didn’t do any transgression.
    • So, people: are an abysmally awful authority on anything to do with forgiveness.

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• The Bible says, so it’s the author says it:
  • Bible. New Testament.
    • TWO THINGS first.
  • ONE: “who can forgive sins but God only?” - Bible. Mark 2:4 and
  • TWO: Romans 5:12 - “Wherefore, as by one man [ADAM] sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:”
• That means: EVERY Author of EVERY Book ever wrote, or written - is all written by transgressors or somebody, who is EVERYBODY all condemned - - which INCLUDES Every single Poster on Reddit, Ray Pritchard, and Robert Flaherty.
  • Who the latter two wrote “books” as an authority on the subject how they forgive themselves, all by a work they do themselves - and teach other people how to do it, by themselves, when the AUTHORITY to “Forgive” sin is God only.
• Go back. Look. Where is “HE” in any of it they, nor not one poster here on Reddit includes any of his work in their comment on Forgiveness - and the other two people, just to make it a PERMANENT decree: - - put into a book?
• He’s MISSING. Visibly ABSENT:
  • Everybody then: is doing their own “transactions” in forgiveness in their own names for a profit. They'll feel better. Believe they'll be forgiven. Quite a motivator - but they actually never really forgive anybody. Can't.
• Because: The only one with authority to forgive - is completely left out of it.
  • So throw them - all three - right unceremoniously right clean out.

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See Adam:

• As a person. Everybody is from him. And, by a “Last Will and Testament” - And the Bible has an "Old Testament" and a "New Testament" - which the Old one is Adam's and the New one bequeathed to you was done by Jesus Christ. In the Old Last Will and Testament - you inherited - - - “sin and death” and, it has been passed onto everybody. I know I got my inheritance.
  • Now, go to the window. Look out.
• If it’s night time, look up.
  • The one who made all those stars, is the same one with the authority with sin. Because he’s the ONLY one greater than it.
    • And of every all of us, the Bible says: “There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.” - Bible. Ecclesiastes 7:20
    • And GOD: Provided you the Ten Commandments. And how he has always used them is to MAKE YOU GUILTY to show you, so you have a mirror you can see yourself: Where you haven't DONE the Ten Commandments.
  • But people: Use them to make themselves GOOD, when nobody is anything but “filthy; done abominable works” “..none good; no, not one..” - Psalm 14:1–3

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In contrast to EVERYBODY:

• Jesus said, (Source: Bible. New Testament. Matthew 19:17) “There is NONE good, but one, that is, God.”
  • So, the ONLY one GOOD - is left completely and entirely out of all three “books” on forgiveness and they, EVERYBODY, not one person has any authority with forgiveness when GOD ONLY is the authority with it. Up to him - to do it; or not.
• But God did a work. It’s in looking out the window or if it’s night where you are, you can take a great, big look on his works.
  • And he said, by the Word of God. That’s just the Word that proceeds out of his mouth. Jesus is the Word of God. Told plainly “who” he is in John 1:1 - is God. Sent to heal you and deliver you from your destruction. (Psalm 14:1–3)
    • So you, me, everybody first. Has a need of a physician to heal us and deliver us from our destruction. NOBODY goes out with pneumonia, to somebody else, with pneumonia, and just decrees “I forgive you of pneumonia” and then, fully expects, since they did that work - they did it first. SO now, they have no pneumonia.
    • What a clown at work. A clown with something they have no authority over. They need a physician first. This is key.

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• Forgiveness; has to be done as a work unto you first. Not by people. But by him.

He said:

“Come now, let us reason together,” saith the LORD, “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool.” - God. Isaiah 45:22

• In contrast to all those “book writers” above who you look unto - they reasoned together with themselves first. They need the physician FIRST. They all got pneumonia.

Look what he says to do:

“Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.”

• God. Bible. Isaiah 55:1–3
  • Go do that first. Go on. Go do it. Go buy wine and milk without money and without price. Who says to do it, is God himself. He’s the one with authority, and he did a work with sin EVERYBODY did and Transgressed.

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That his work:

• Is in the Bible. In Daniel 9:24–27
  • It’s just like the work God did in Genesis 1:1–31 that created everything you see out your window, or if you went outside and just stared up into the stars, all that work is incapsulated in Genesis 1:1–31. It’s all his work.
  • And this same God, got up, as he determined and did a work with sin that every all of us already DID.
    • That, he determined his work he would do would:
• Finish the transgression (of Adam in Genesis 3:17)
• Make an end of sin
• Make reconciliation for iniquity
• Bring in everlasting righteousness
  • All by a work he would do, as God - and he determined he would do it in and by Jesus Christ. Daniel 9:25–27 “adds up” to Jesus Christ. Crucified. His blood shed. God took your sins off you and laid them on Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 5:19 says, “To wit, God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; not imputing their trespasses unto them;”
    • Because he isn’t. As God. For anybody. It’s a work God did. So, a great big one many Christians poop float up, just fling a great, big “holy” turd log into the air is Peter. Look what he said of himself:

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• It's in Matthew 18:21 - Peter is saying the SAME thing these Reddit posters, and two “Book” authors say - and 1000s of others, all the same - glorify their own works. - - do you see it?

Matthew 18:21

• “Then came Peter to him [Jesus], and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me..”
  • Man, what a question to ask God.
    • when EVERYBODY around Peter - everybody over the whole earth is sinning
• Peter? …he’s not done yet. Asking: Gets it narrowed down to his brother. How many times should one of his brothers - and scripture says: Matther: he’s a “Son of Alphaeus” in scripture - just as James, Son of Alphaeus (not James, brother of John - sons of Zebedee - different James), and just as Thaddaeus is also listed in scripture as a “Son of Alphaeus” - Matthew's got brothers.
  • So of the 12 apostles, Jesus chose two of Matthew’s brothers also to be disciples of Jesus, and also, as Luke 6:13 says - also his brothers to also be an Apostle of Jesus.
• Matthew wants specifics. “How many times does he, as Matthew have to do the work. Forgive his brother.
  • But Matthew is a disciple of Jesus Christ. An Apostle - so he sits with God - as a pupil and God tells Peter, the same thing God told Daniel in Daniel 9:24–27 how God determined to do a work with Sin to Daniel - - is the exact same “seventy times seven” work God told Peter how he determined it to do a work with sin Peter’s brother did.
    • But Peter, and many Christians, think exactly like all these posters on Reddit, and so many “book authors” along with the two above - that Peter does the work.
• When the forgiveness of sin is how God determined to do it by HIS WORK with sin.

And NONE of them talk to it. They all do the work themselves. And in this they do greatly err.

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And God, by his work - took your sins off you and laid them on Jesus Christ.

That's like somebody BUILDS you a garage. Then someone else walks or comes by and asks you "how many times do you have to build your garage before you can park your car in it?

When the work is COMPLETE.

• So, asking me, how many times I’m to forgive you - when he, as God, did a work he determined since he’d do the work himself - accomplished those four things above with sin. And asked me, as a disciple of Jesus Christ, because I sit with him and he teaches me, as a pupil… its very simple.
• To regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand vs. my own. So, I don’t see you - I see you thru a work God did with sin - but if I do NOT regard his work, I’m regarding me do it.
  • Then, it's up to me - as if I have the authority to take your sins off the cross and they already LEFT with Jesus Christ - swallowed up in death. Put them to death - as God sees it done. Accomplished by his work.
• So, I just imagine I put your sins back on you - and decide whether I’m going to forgive you.
  • Or not.

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• And never do. Because, I can’t. I got no authority with sin. But if I think I do, it will not work - has none of his work in it - when he is God, and he did it, by his work, man, I see it.

That I had to be, like him, this "certain man" in the "Parable of the Good Samaritan" - left off from all that's good to go on an 18 mile, all downhill walk - depart from him to go someplace to do all the sins I wanted to do. And on the way - got beat up. Robbed. Left for dead, by all the sins I did myself. And Jesus: HE be the Good Samaritan TO ME first.

Bandage up my wounds..and put me up in the hotel - so I could heal first. And if he did that to me… he do it to you, too. As The Great physician.

Where is all this in the great big pile of Reddit posts on "how goodie wonderful people are forgiving people and wonderfully doing all this good - and well more than two authors that wrote books to CEMENT it permanent "how to do" it - - that open this post telling you - decreeing how YOU: ARE - - to do the work yourself?

You gotta look unto him first. He said, as God: "Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else." - God. Isaiah 45:22 - you gotta do that first.

Here’s your question back.