There is no Limitation to Forgiveness

If one is to rebuild beyond the incident, one does not have to resort to blame. If a person properly for their part in forging a failed situation may fix this problem and accept that the human experience we can and will make mistakes, but only by acknowledging our weakness will be truly be one for the other, and, painful because of all that came before it may be, if we were to continue to trust and love, we must choose to live by our principles, and hope and pray for a better tomorrow. Instead it will lead us to pray for forgiveness, as Jesus did when nothing he said or did change a lot of action condemning him unfairly "... forgive them, for they know not what they do."

Forgiveness is a wonderful thing and yet,much too often we allow our stubbornness to keep us burdened down with guilt, struggling with broken relationships and feeling inadequate.

It's true that there is no limitation to forgiveness. But for me, it depends upon the kind of mistake a person did. If he intentionally do the unpleasant thing he did, oh sorry it's not that easy to forgive.

For the vast majority of people that have done me wrong, I've been able to forgive them, but it has been something that has taken some time. However, there are two people in my life that I don't think that I will ever be able to forgive because of the fact that they did me so wrong. One of these people was someone that lied to me about everything that they were. The second person was someone that stole from my family and myself despite the fact that we offered her a roof over her head and food to eat.

It's hard to forgive everyone for practically anything, God is much more loving and more wise and truly understands the person and therefore he is a very forgiving God. Like you said, we are human and we are impacted by emotion and we feel a sense of resentment once a person hurts us. I reckon I'm quite forgiving person but my forgiveness does have a limit. For example if one person has hurt me in some way but know about it and apologized then of course I will forgive them! Because they know what they did was wrong and they regret it. Now if a person hurts me more than once and don't even bother apologizing or even mentioning it to me, acting as if nothing is wrong between us then I probably won't forgive them. For friends, I am forgiving but right now some of my friends in my group are not hurting me but my other friends too repetitively and they don't even realize it. I just pretend that it's all normal and forgive them but right now I'm not too sure. I haven't confronted them yet but a person won't know that they're hurting you until you really tell them about it. If they still keep doing it, then forgiving would be tough, rather not talk to them again.

'Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.' When the Lord say these words from the cross, He does not mean saying them to the Roman soldiers who did harm to him while He was dying on the cross. Who could ever bear all the hardships and yet forgive them for 'grave' things they are doing against him? Maybe if I am the one nailed to that cross, I will say every curses and bad words to those people doing me harm. 'Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.' Everyday moment of our life and as we say the Lord's Prayer and utter this passage, do we also think about our enemies and those people who has done us wrongly? Honestly and I think most of us thought it was just a need to utter these phrase as part of the prayer we often say. 'To err is human, to forgive is divine.' This phrase coined by Alexander Poe when he was criticized by many - best defines us human. It is not us human who will forgiveness but ultimately it's God during judgement day. But it is not an 'excuse' to say that we are just human that we cannot give forgiveness to people who does not deserve 'our' forgiveness. That we cannot give it to people who abuse us of our goodness and repeatedly does bad to us. Finding ways not to repeat or lessen the abuse would be a way to achieve one's ultimate goal to give goodness to others. Sometimes it is because of our doing that others see the opportunity to abuse us. True we are not God to give forgiveness forever, but God gave us reasons to think of ways to stop the abuse and correct the wrongdoing. Thus it is up to us to stop the abuse.

For me, so far i think there is no limitation to my forgiveness... but of course there are limitations as to what you can do for that person especially when he or she is repeatedly taking advantage of your being able to forgive. Sometimes we have to admit people never learn and everytime they see our weaknesses, we would be taken advantaged of. Maybe what we all can do is to just stop and Do forgive but take care of ourselves and free ourselves of repeated burdens. there is nothing wrong to forgive and to let go.

As you say we are human. But I try to live by the Word of God. I am not perfect either. I am working more and more on my forgiving others that I used too. I study the Word and I spend my time living it too. I forgive, forget and let it go.

There shouldn't be limitation when it comes to this. We also commit mistakes in our lives and we ask forgiveness. How we will gain forgiveness if we can't forgive those who offended us. It is better to forgive always and keep away all anger and hatred out from our heart, Let there be peace...and live a happy life.

I would say there is a limit to my forgiveness. I can work on forgiving small things. But big things aren't always easy to forgive or forget. God does forgive if a person is sincerely repentent but his forgiveness has a limit for those who continue to practice wrongdoing. There are those who try and mock his forgiveness but we aren't suppose to try and take advantage of it.We have to be repentent. So others at time may continually wrong us in big ways then that is for a person to decide with regard to things like adultery.

Our being human does not necessarily block our capacity to forgive... or give a certain limit in forgiving an errant person. That person maybe a friend once,or somebody who just popped out into your world with the role of a villain. Of course, one of the hardest thing to do is to forgive someone who has done you wrong, caused you pain and embarrassment, and irritates you 'to the bones'...But for me, I'd like to follow what Jesus advised us in the Bible...Yeah, Even God puts a limit to the amount of forgiveness and the number of times we ought to forgive. Jesus even commands us to love our enemies...In the number of times we ought to forgive, He gave limit, too. Jesus said that we must forgive a man asking forgiveness even up to 70*7=490 times. So what do you think of that limitation? I think it's tantamount of saying that we have to forgive over and over and over again...

Whether to forgive or not or how any times we should forgive a person or no depends on person and the mistakes. if a person is constantly and deliberately taking advantage of me, i would never ever forgive him , if it is other wise just by coincidence then i will.