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From Forgiven to Forgiving: Learning to Forgive One Another God's Way
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What do the following statements about forgiveness have in common? Forgiveness is obtained through apologizing. The best thing you can do is "forgive and forget". You aren't forgiven until you feel forgiven. In this book, Dr. Jay Adams carefully explores all dimensions of the process of forgiveness.A He can help you understand biblical forgiveness from beginning to end and apply that understanding to everyday situations ranging from forgiving your straying spouse or prodigal child - and being forgiven by them as well.
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Pages 175
Dimensions: Length: 8.7" Width: 5.24" Height: 0.45"
Weight: 0.57 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Publisher Calvary Press
ISBN 1879737124
EAN 9781879737129
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 | Pastors, PLEASE READ THIS BOOK... Apr 13, 2008 |
| ...and help your church members to gain a biblical understanding of forgiveness. There is far too much superstition out there about this (and many other) subject(s) among Christians. BACK TO SCRIPTURE!! | | | | Great, Eye-Opening Book Dec 13, 2007 |
| Forgiveness. You think it's an either you do or you don't kind of thing. Not really! Scripture has quite a bit to say about this subject that, frankly, is quite a bit different than what our culture, and even our churches are teaching. Jay Adams is direct, clear, and easy to follow. He makes this important subject make a lot more sense to me than it did before. | | | | A Badly Needed Message for Christians May 4, 2006 |
Forgiveness is an essential component of the Christian faith, not only in terms of God's forgiveness of our sins, but also in terms of our willingness to forgive others who hurt us. That much is clear from the Lord's prayer and many other scriptures.
Unfortunately, however, a lot of Christians distort scriptural teachings about forgiveness in a way which has the effect of preventing Christians from holding one another accountable for the sins they commit.
There is no doubt that we are required, as Christians, to love one another unconditionally. Unconditional forgiveness, on the other hand, is unbiblical.
God, after all, loves all human beings, even those who blatantly disregard God's laws. It was on account of God's infinite love that He sent Jesus to die for us on the cross.
God's love is unconditional. But God's forgiveness is conditional. And since our forgiveness of others who sin against us is supposed to be modeled on God's forgiveness of us, it therefore follows that our forgiveness of others should likewise be conditional.
It is true that God has made provision for every human being to be forgiven. But making provision for forgiveness, and forgiving, are two different things.
If God forgave every human being, there would be no Hell. Like it or not, though, Hell does exist. The only way to believe otherwise is to ignore or dismiss large portions of the Bible.
If God forgave everyone unconditionally, then it would be accurate to say that substantial numbers of people were destined to go to Hell, even though God had forgiven them! That makes no sense at all! Forgiveness is worthless if it does not alter the way in which the person who has been forgiven is treated.
When people are taught that they are responsible for forgiving people unconditionally, regardless of whether or not the people they forgive have repented or even acknowledged wrongdoing, it has the effect of making it impossible to hold people accountable for their actions. Yet, there are scriptures which make it clear that we are responsible for confronting offenders with their sins, and those scriptures make it equally clear that their responses to such confrontations are very relevant to how we ought to continue to treat them in the future.
I can't help but think that one of the main causes of various church-related scandals, such as the scandal involving sexually abusive Catholic priests, is our naive willingness to forgive people who have furnished us with no indication of their repentance or contrition. When people are forgiven unconditionally, despite their unwillingness to acknowledge wrongdoing, they have no incentive to repent, so the consequence is often that such people continue to commit similar sins. So there is a definite sense in which unconditional forgiveness has the effect of encouraging people to sin against one another and abuse one another.
By definition, any church doctrine which has the effect of encouraging or condoning sin is a heretical doctrine.
In my opinion, Jay Adams' book makes an enormous contribution to discussions on the subject of forgiveness. I highly recommend the book to every Christian. | | | | Everything you never knew about forgiveness! Apr 19, 2005 |
| I have been attending Evangelical Christian churches for many years and have never heard anyone teach the aspects of forgiveness from a true Biblical perspective. Jay E. Adams gives so many different situations that all ages can benefit from this work, which I suspect will become a Christian classic. It awakened me to the distortions of forgiveness and forgiving, many of which I had previously accepted. It has blessed my life and and my relationships. It deserves 5+ stars. | | |  | Dangerous license to withhold forgiveness Jan 8, 2005 |
Forgiveness from the heart: is the Christian obligated to forgive the unrepentant? Adams says no in the strongest terms. In fact, in footnote #10 he says, "Since the Bible requires at least an affirmation of repentance, it is wrong, and, therefore, sinful to grant forgiveness to those who do not care."
Adams errs in several ways. First, he fails to recognize two kinds of forgiveness. He fails to rightly distinguish between unconditional forgiveness from the heart and the verbal forgiveness that is made possible when someone repents (heart forgiveness vs verbal forgiveness). In fact, he says that forgiveness from the heart is not really forgiveness at all, just willingness to forgive.
Secondly, his comparison of God's forgiveness with human forgiveness is simplistic. He says that since we are to forgive like God, and since God requires repentance, so should we.
However, God has every right to make His forgiveness conditional because God is sovereign; God is holy; God punishes; and God judges. Jesus suffered and died for the sins of His people. The most painful and heart-rending forgiveness between humans is dwarfed by the magnitude of what God did so that He could forgive His people.
Jesus warns that those who refuse to forgive will not be forgiven. Dare we ignore this warning? Dare we encourage others to withhold forgiveness? The teaching of Jay Adams on inter-personal forgiveness is the blot that soils his legacy of so-called biblical counseling. | | | Write your own review about From Forgiven to Forgiving: Learning to Forgive One Another God's Way
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