The Gospel Of Forgiveness

This world is filled with awful, hurtful, and evil things; however, this world is also filled with empathy, love, and forgiveness. Forgiveness comes from a big person. Someone who has been hurt and is willing to look past the pain to forgive the inflictor. To forgive can be the hardest part of any issue or situation, but it brings forth acceptance and happiness. Some ways people try to earn forgiveness is through baptisms, sacrifices, prayers, and fasting. The Bible explains many more examples of acts people perform to try and earn forgiveness. I believe The Bible says forgiveness is something that you must give to others automatically but work hard to receive. In the Old Testament, one story that shows forgiveness is shown in Second Samuel,
One verse that really stood out to me was in Luke 17:1, “If your brother or sister sins against you, rebuke them; and if they repent, forgive them. Even if they sin against you seven times in a day and seven times come back to you saying, ‘I repent’ you must forgive them.” This passage refers to loving unconditionally regardless of the bad that has happened. After researching more about this passage, I found a source that talked about how in Luke forgiveness is seen as a moral that everyone should possess. Luke also emphasizes on love and forgiveness going hand in hand. The Gospel of Luke brings the idea that you must forgive to love, and you must love everyone. The words, “to forgive” and “forgiveness” is used 46 times in the Gospel of Luke. In some cases, the term is not used in a religious sense but sometimes used on another level to indicate how Jesus' followers should respond to each other. The Gospel of Luke focuses quite heavily on loving and forgiving everyone without
This passage says, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Peter is who is talking in this passage. He is telling the apostles that it is important to baptize the Gentiles and the people, so they can be cleansed of their sins. This is something Peter believed everyone must do if they want to be forgiven for their sins and have a closer relationship with God. I found an interesting secondary source that talks a lot about this passage and breaks down what it is saying. The source talks about contradictions to whether Peter is saying baptism is the only way to free people from their sins. In the article, this controversy concluded that this bible passage isn’t meaning that baptism is the only way to be forgiven. The evidence to this is found in Luke 3:19 which states, “Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord.” As you can see, if you turn to God and have faith, you may be free from sins. Nothing is stated about baptism. However, that doesn’t mean being baptized won’t help people to purify people from their sins, it’s just not the only way, as mentioned in the