Aquinas was used by Satan ( as God forced Satan) to define sin to be “an act done in free will”. ( paraphrase of De Malo / On Evil 7.3) Satan ‘sainted” Aquinas for it as it established a blindness to true forgiveness that destroys relationships.
In the lie that sin is a mere act done in free will, forgiveness can only be seen within the best honesty of those deceptions. At the same time, the best honesty that is taught within the lie of free will is that when one is attacked, one needs to employ something in self-defense: to be attacked is to be injured and quite literally to stop being injured is common sense.
When seen as an “act” the injury is overlooked as the self-defense focuses on the attacker and the blame that is mandated by the lie of free will and “sin as act” combo lie. A physical injury, just as an emotional injury ( which is actually a spiritual injury ) forces an emotional response.
Forgiveness then becomes a pretense in which the injured party is expected to ignore their own wisdom / understanding of what it is to be attacked and injured in order to avoid feeling negative emotions against the attacker “to save the relationship”. “It was you, it was only you and you did it on purpose but I’m going to not-feel what is in fact common sense to feel even for personal survival”. The pretense is that merely wanting to not feel what is in fact emotional common wisdom is possible and being forced to speak in a manner indicative as-if it were possible i s mandated. The victim is first injured by external forces, then forced to self-injure themselves intellectually and emotionally for the promise of a brighter emotional future than the present. As a result, the actual consequence of doing the forgiveness is a building of resentment at being forced to denigrate one’s own wisdom that is truthful, and therefore as being forced to be hypocritical, while having feelings of superiority because of viewing it as a sacrifice and the ability to do so as a “power”; and of being victimized at the same time by self-injury for being expected to do it morally or religiously as evidence of piety. “You made me call my wisdom stupid to save our relationship and outside of this time of doing that to call my same wisdom truth.”
The underlying spiritual creature that is Sin, that does the acts that bear its name is not removed, the injury is again mis-diagnosed as a “act done in free will” and repetition is the only result. Thus the relationship turns into a mutual “You’re just going to do it again no matter how many times you say you are sorry and I forgive you no matter how sincere we both are. You are taking advantage of my power to turn against my own understanding, victimize myself and be hypocritical to myself on your behalf and my obligation to be moral or religious to keep doing it.”
That false forgiveness ruins relationships while everyone is told to do it more, faster and more earnestly as personal growth and proof of piety.
God’s forgiveness separates us from the living creature that is Sin. We are commanded to do likewise with others. True forgiveness is then the understanding that Sin is a living creature ( not the definition of Aquinas as “an act in free will”) , there is no free will and the injured party and the one used to injure by spiritual forces as enemies are to come together in Christ ( one of the reason Christ says: Mat 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them. ) to cast out the offending spirit. “Go/Live on and sin no more.” means –spirit cast out, not “make better choices as if in an ideal, unassailable privacy within) .Forgiveness then is accomplished when that spirit or spirits are gone and not before. That is Christian conflict resolution: relationships grow stronger the more often that happens because you understand each other as battle buddies in a holy war against Sin and Satan. Imagine 70 x 7 per day..
The false forgiveness is sorcery to destroy relationships presented as false flag Christianity and many pagan religions. It is openly taught as “sound doctrine” by most pastors and priests to this day: forgiveness as emotional parity called “love” maintained by self-sacrifice. The idealized sacrifice-er is presented with praise, the idealized free willed perpetrator is condemned and the band plays on. Occasionally the sorcerers will go further and claim forgiveness is not even necessary and that it is divine to merely be a sacrificial victim as perpetual expectation and religious duty.
The difference in the forgiveness demonstrated is plain and is one reason God said not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. Unbelievers in western societies (at the least and all over the world), best honesty is to be deceived free will is real, sin is an act done “on purpose” in perfect spiritual isolation within and to do hypocrisy as self-defense and call it forgiveness.
Any thoughts?
What kind of forgiveness have you been taught, who taught it to you and why? Were they presented as ultra-godly spiritual guides in order to off carry off the deception. How have your relationships fared in the pretense of ‘free will’ + “sin as non-living act”?
Note that right after Christ, in His Incarnate form, tells us to forgive 70 x 7 times per day, ( not a euphemism for “don’t even count”, that’s a specific number) , he speaks of the servants with the talents, going so far as to say “therefore”, i.e. forgive for the reason of ..parable of the talents.
Mat 18:21,22 Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven.
We are required to do perfect forgiveness, not experimental forgiveness. Only God can do that through us. Thus forgiveness is nonfree will, nonrobotic, non-experimental, as in merely standing up..God does our obedience for us through us:
Eze 2:1,2 And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak unto thee. And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
Mark 11:25,26 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.
Inside the Name Jesus Christ, Amen