Why Would I Forgive Someone “Seventy Times Seven” (Matthew 18:21-22)?
Forgiveness is not holding someone's sins against them in terms of creating distance or enmity in my relationship with them. The great paradigm example of forgiveness is God himself, who says in Jeremiah 31 that, "I will remember their sins and iniquities no more." What that means is not that God is going to forfeit his omniscience, but that God will not hold our sins against us.
Sam Waldron
Dec 27, 2022