The conversation below is about Adam and Eve
who were cursed cos they had disobeyed God:
G = spwn07, JM = Christian friend
G says (10:58
PM):
But would a parent curse a baby in A & E? If I had godly
powers, and the heart of most parents on heart, I would rather
forgive them on the spot but punish them in ways like not hugging
him when he wants it.
G says (10:58
PM):
*on earth
JM says (10:58 PM):
yes
JM says (10:59 PM):
this is something we will never know
JM says (10:59 PM):
but then if we talk about earth right?
JM says (10:59 PM):
wont parents sometimes get so angry wif children e.g. for
putting dirt into their mouth and then scold and
hit
JM says (10:59 PM):
but sometimes then come back to regret their
actions?
G
says (10:59 PM):
but you would never curse your own children, isn't
it?
JM says (10:59 PM):
i
m not saying God is like tat, well could be but then God may have
felt betrayed
JM says (11:00 PM):
tat I told u never to eat from the tree for your own good and
now u have to pay the consequences of it
JM says (11:00 PM):
hard to say for human
G
says (11:00 PM):
If human parents have the capacity to forgive, why not
God?
JM says (11:00 PM):
some do
JM says (11:00 PM):
well tat's what the whole bible is about
JM says (11:01 PM):
forgiveness
JM says (11:01 PM):
i
wont profess to hav the answers
JM says (11:01 PM):
but then it comes to a pt it is difficult to answer becoz only
God knows
JM says (11:01 PM):
whether he was angry or wanted man to learn their lesson, we
don;t know what he thought
G
says (11:01 PM):
isn't forgiveness a very natural and more responsive reflex than
man? Humans may waver, but God wavers? I don't
understand
JM says (11:02 PM):
well
JM says (11:02 PM):
i
really cant answer G, this i have to be frank
JM says (11:02 PM):
because i may be misinterpreting a lot of things because there
are just somethings we will never know
JM says (11:02 PM):
and the more we try to use human logic to understand things in
the spiritual realm, the more we get vexed
JM says (11:02 PM):
becoz human logic is limited
but all i can say is tat while
logic is impt, esp to prevent pple from brainwashing us
JM says (11:03 PM):
so if the heart impt and when
one seeks to know God, he will find and experience Him
JM says (11:03 PM):
I for one have experienced far
too many times in various ways
JM says (11:04 PM):
sometimes it is too difficult
to explain but u know
If the whole bible is about forgiveness,
i think so are all the Buddhist sutras, that includes the heart
sutra and Diamond sutra too, although Buddhist concepts talks about
forgiveness in a very different and profound way.
When you are able to forgive, it means you can
let go. You are no longer attached to the good or bad that happens
to you or around you.