It Is Impossible To Forgive Some People

513 Words3 Pages
Forgiveness is the act of accepting that one has been wronged and choosing to ignore and move on with one’s life. To truly forgive someone for an act, you must genuinely feel the priorly mentioned emotions and you must no longer feel anger towards to the offender. Forgiveness is an important responsibility and an integral part of life, and feeling fulfilled. Sometimes, man is capable of committing acts of outstanding horror, the holocaust, the 9/11 bombings and the Rwandan genocide. In these times people will experience firsthand the atrocities that man is capable of. If a human in whom you trust and love, to see them killed is terrible, and leads to resentment and anger. It is not easy to forgive people for committing atrocities, and in certain times it is even wrong to forgive. Hitler would not have deserved forgiveness had he not committed suicide. If we forgive someone they themselves must be sincere in resenting and regretting their actions. Forgiveness, can lead to positive emotions and closure, but if there isn’t forgiveness it can lead to the build up of hatred, depression and regret. It is important to forgive people in order to obtain closure and move on with one’s life, man is not created to build up hate one must, like in Buddhism, create a cycle of positive emotions. Forgiveness allows you to move on with your live but also, to allow the person of the wrongdoing to move on with their life. Christianity is a religion (faith) that emphasises the importance of forgiveness, the messiah (Jesus) taught that forgiveness is key, to Peter’s query of how much we should forgive, Jesus said to him ‘seventy times seven times’ which is a lot of forgiving. Christianity believes that God enables us to rise above human limitation. We can forgive even the most heinous of crimes, because Jesus did, and we must show his compassion in our actions as well.
Open Document