OK, this is exactly why a conversation like this is hard to have.
Seems to me that, whether or not you forgive the sin in yourself, it's still a sin. So I don't see what forgiveness has to do with it.
What I mean by "forgiveness" was how easy or forgiving you were towards your own behaviour. You cannot forgive your own sins.
Let's say I swore at a driver or two or 30 this morning for various behaviours on the highway that I find inconsiderate, dangerous, or whatever. Now, I could be forgiving towards myself in that I could blame others for causing me to curse. However, I consider that a cop out. I did it, I own it, so I would not be that "forgiving" towards myself. Now, cursing is a sin, so, there's a whole bunch of'em right there in the car before I ever got really started in the day. Another person might be comfortable saying since their behaviour caused me to curse, it don't count. That's what I was trying to state.
Of course, God didn't actually provide a list so we're left with the leadership of various religions to determine what God presumably determined was a sin.
God provided a list. It's all through the Bible, your sin list is someone's summary of some of these entries. |
