{"id":136,"date":"2013-05-19T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T16:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2013\/05\/19\/the-church-chooses-to-not-forgive\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:10:41","slug":"the-church-chooses-to-not-forgive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2013\/05\/19\/the-church-chooses-to-not-forgive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church chooses to not forgive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are to always to forgive then why does the Scripture say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJohn 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That doesn\u2019t fit at all with the unilateral forgiveness paradigm. Why doesn\u2019t the church just always forgive if that\u2019s really the right thing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are to always to forgive then why does the Scripture say: John 20:23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.&nbsp; That doesn\u2019t fit at all with the unilateral forgiveness paradigm. Why doesn\u2019t the church just always forgive if that\u2019s really the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}