WHEN YOU FORGIVE, you’re saying nothing about the responsibility of the one who did wrong…

The one who did wrong is responsible for the wrong, period.

Forgiving someone does not absolve that person of responsibility for her or his actions.

It does take the relationship out of the mode where one punishes the other, but it shouldn’t diminish the responsibility for the wrong that was done.  Howard Markman, Scott Stanley, Susan L. Blumberg, “Forgiveness and the Restoration of Intimacy,” Fighting for Your Marriage, 219

“And forgive us our sins, For we also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one.”  Luke 11:4

Mike Benson