Unpacking Forgiveness

Chris Brauns has written a new book on forgiveness:

While I include more detail in the book, the Biblical argument for conditional forgiveness is straight-forward.

� Christians are called to forgive others as God forgave them (Matthew, 6:12, Ephesians 4:32).

� God forgives conditionally. God only forgives those who repent of their sins and turn in saving faith to Him (1 John 1:9, John 3:36).

� Likewise, we also should offer forgiveness to all.

� We forgive those who repent. Indeed, we are obliged to forgive (Luke 17:3-4), knowing that whatever someone has done to offend us pales in comparison to what we have done to offend God (Matthew 18:32-33). (See what others say on conditional forgiveness here).