I have been a Christian for more than ten years and I have noticed that Christians find it difficult to forgive and forget despite the teachings on love.
Many tend to preach forgiveness only when they have paid back. Others will never forget what has happened to them and there are those who justify paying back fellow believers with evil by quoting scriptures.
This situation which we find ourselves in is a true confirmation that the end is near. People setting up one another, pastors dragging church properties, backbiting in the church especially the choir, promotion of ministers based on ethnicity, fighting over boy/girl friends, quarrelling over income, praying for the death of people, etc are proofs that the church is not practicing true forgiveness.
Christians should learn how to forgive just the way Christ did for us.

Please Nairalanders(Christians), why is total forgiveness difficult for we Christians and how can we practice total forgiveness?

Jackdaniels16:
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Space Booker! Please answer my question.

BECAUSE THEY ARE HUMANS AND RELIGIOUS PEOPLE,


RELIGIOUS PEOPLE ARE MORE WICKED THAN NON RELIGIOUS PEEPS


IT TAKES A BAD, WICKED OR UNFORGIVING PERSON TO BE RELIGIOUS/CHRISTIAN

People now use sin to trade. Imagine father takes advantage of his child to do money ritual or covenant to coven for selfish gains and just chill for the child to suffer untold struggles in life. The child comes to this realization and confronts the father and he simply ask for forgiveness.
Everything above would have been OK but for the fact that the selfish father had forgiveness as an option to escape his evil deed.

There are people who do evil for gains and ask God for forgiveness or their victim if caught. Sin is now an industry.

CodeTemplar:
People now use sin to trade. Imagine father takes advantage of his child to do money ritual or covenant to coven for selfish gains and just chill for the child to suffer untold struggles in life. The child comes to this realization and confronts the father and he simply ask for forgiveness.
Everything above would have been OK but for the fact that the selfish father had forgiveness as an option to escape his evil deed.

There are people who do evil for gains and ask God for forgiveness or their victim if caught. Sin is now an industry.

I get your point but are you saying we should not forgive ourselves?

AirUnseen:
I have been a Christian for more than ten years and I have noticed that Christians find it difficult to forgive and forget despite the teachings on love.
Many tend to preach forgiveness only when they have paid back. Others will never forget what has happened to them and there are those who justify paying back fellow believers with evil by quoting scriptures.
This situation which we find ourselves in is a true confirmation that the end is near. People setting up one another, pastors dragging church properties, backbiting in the church especially the choir, promotion of ministers based on ethnicity, fighting over boy/girl friends, quarrelling over income, praying for the death of people, etc are proofs that the church is not practicing true forgiveness.
Christians should learn how to forgive just the way Christ did for us.

Please Nairalanders(Christians), why is total forgiveness difficult for we Christians and how can we practice total forgiveness?

You are not a christian. Your post is FOOL of lies. For you to come to the conclution that all christians dont forgive even when you hv not come in contact with 1% of christians makes you a chronic LIE Mohammed.

No matter how difficult it seems in answering this question, one has to understand that humility plays a major role in forgiveness. One has to see the need to respect ànd put others in shoes. When hurt, one does not need to keep grudges in his/her heart. But in situations where one is continuously hurt, he just got to change his friends or environment and focus more on others issues of life. This helps one to forget.

Op your conclusions are without prove. What is your demography, what data did you use to come to this conclusion...Anyway, forgiveness is compulsory for Christians but you must also consider individual differences. Also, as humans, forgetting is impossible unless you have amnesia or selective memory. We are intelligent animals and our survival is hinged on the fact that we avoid what causes us harm in any way. So while we are mandated to forgive, forgetting is impractical. What is possible though is to do away with the need for revenge anytime you remember the evil done against you. Also, remember that people can be very wicked and opportunistic, who see it as an opportunity to ruin people's lives because they feel you are obliged to forgive. Some will even know that they are committing evil against someone and won't stop until they are found out ; even at that point they will not even ask for forgiveness, even when they ask for it, they tell you that you are mandated to forgive them and you are wrong for being offended by what they have done. Bros, may you never meet such people in your life. I still say, I doubt it if Jesus Christ will be willing to come die again the second time for man's wickedness. Once bitten, twice shy.

KevMitnick:
Op your conclusions are without prove. What is your demography, what data did you use to come to this conclusion...Anyway, forgiveness is compulsory for Christians but you must also consider individual differences. Also, as humans, forgetting is impossible unless you have amnesia or selective memory. We are intelligent animals and our survival is hinged on the fact that we avoid what causes us harm in any way. So while we are mandated to forgive, forgetting is impractical. What is possible though is to do away with the need for revenge anytime you remember the evil done against you. Also, remember that people can be very wicked and opportunistic, who see it as an opportunity to ruin people's lives because they feel you are obliged to forgive. Some will even know that they are committing evil against someone and won't stop until they are found out ; even at that point they will not even ask for forgiveness, even when they ask for it, they tell you that you are mandated to forgive them and you are wrong for being offended by what they have done. Bros, may you never meet such people in your life. I still say, I doubt it if Jesus Christ will be willing to come die again the second time for man's wickedness. Once beaten, twice shy.

Wow , Thanks. Forgetting is impractical. I see.

The rest is God's Judgement!

PointZerom:
You are not a christian. Your post is FOOL of lies. For you to come to the conclution that all christians dont forgive even when you hv not come in contact with 1% of christians makes you a chronic LIE Mohammed.

Thank you. I am seeing the CHRISTinYOU.

Pharaoh9:
BECAUSE THEY ARE HUMANS AND RELIGIOUS PEOPLE,


RELIGIOUS PEOPLE ARE MORE WICKED THAN NON RELIGIOUS PEEPS


IT TAKES A BAD, WICKED OR UNFORGIVING PERSON TO BE RELIGIOUS/CHRISTIAN

Over religious people are very close minded and hypocritical...just don't mind them

Because we are human we have feelings. We might hurt the same but we don’t heal the same

Its forgive, but never forget....

That is what makes us human.

is a good thing to forgive but is sometimes so difficult.

GOD FORGIVES I DONT

NAIRALAND & ANTI CHRISTIAN THREAD

Irrespective of religion, it cuts across.

To err is human; to forgive divine.

That should answer your question.

It takes a certain level of grace to forgive and even when you forgive, forgetting is another matter entirely.

It cant really be generalized, perhaps itz based on personal experience one has encountered....

Which human forgives totally?


Total forgiveness can only happen after revenge. Then you can feel you have stroked a little and then can let go.

Nothing like forgive and forget. It's fiction.

That's what makes us human.

How can you forgive someone who deliberately hurt you? forget the fact that people claim to have forgiven, but deep down they still feel bad

Bible says; do unto others as you will like them to do unto you.

If you fuvk me up, I'll fuvk you up and down.

Why are Yoruba muslims allowed to comment here
But we are not allowed to comment on their thread

There is distinctive difference between Christian (Christlike) and Church goers or bench warmers,people that can do as Christ taught and behaved are never worthy to be called Christian, get your fact straight

AirUnseen:
I have been a Christian for more than ten years and I have noticed that Christians find it difficult to forgive and forget despite the teachings on love.
Many tend to preach forgiveness only when they have paid back. Others will never forget what has happened to them and there are those who justify paying back fellow believers with evil by quoting scriptures.
This situation which we find ourselves in is a true confirmation that the end is near. People setting up one another, pastors dragging church properties, backbiting in the church especially the choir, promotion of ministers based on ethnicity, fighting over boy/girl friends, quarrelling over income, praying for the death of people, etc are proofs that the church is not practicing true forgiveness.
Christians should learn how to forgive just the way Christ did for us.

Please Nairalanders(Christians), why is total forgiveness difficult for we Christians and how can we practice total forgiveness?

Because Christianity have many denominations, all you hear is "My Church is better than that useless Church" So many complications among the Christians, the Cele man/woman see the Anglican Church as rubbish, the Catholic church believes they are the best, the Methodist church hate the Cherubim and Seraphim, the Baptist church will never allow the Presbyterian church to pray for them, the Christ Apostolic Church will never worship in a Pentecostal church, the Pentecostal church see Jehovah's Witness as evil.

Upon all this hatred and lack of unity, love and respect for one another, some gullible pastors will still come to tell us that Buhari wants to Islamize Nigeria. Imagine a street in Lagos with 10 difference denomination of churches, and yet you won't see any of the people living on that street attending any of these churches. You will see a three storey building with 3 different denomination of churches.

I wonder which denominations Jesus will follow if he eventually comes back. If the Cele man can not forcefully convert an Anglican man to worship in their church then I see no reason why someone will still believe that Nigeria want to be Islamize.

Even the bible says not every one that calls Jesus Christ lord lord will enter the kingdom.... a REAL Christian forgives because that's the word of God. True Christians obey the word of God

freedomchild:
Even the bible says not every one that calls Jesus Christ lord lord will enter the kingdom.... a REAL Christian forgives because that's the word of God. True Christians obey the word of God

Yes we forgive... but can we wipe the memories off the mind?

Ok