{"id":139,"date":"2013-05-19T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2013\/05\/19\/unilateral-forgiveness-is-imaginary-forgiveness\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T14:13:48","slug":"unilateral-forgiveness-is-imaginary-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2013\/05\/19\/unilateral-forgiveness-is-imaginary-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Unilateral forgiveness is imaginary forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;I was forgiven BEFORE I repented.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Not exactly. If you were, then you would not need to receive it.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cThe penalty\/debt was paid and justice was met at the Cross.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>True.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cI simply need to receive that forgiveness.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p>If I offer you a dollar and you refuse to take the dollar, who has<br \/>\nthe dollar? Same with forgiveness. We can offer the gift of forgiveness<br \/>\nbut it the other person hasn\u2019t taken it there\u2019s been no forgiveness \u2013 at<br \/>\n least not as used\/defined in the Bible. Forgiveness has to be received<br \/>\nas exemplified here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnpcb.org\/esv\/search\/?go=Go&amp;q=Act+26%3A18\" title=\"English Standard Version Bible\">Act 26:18<\/a><br \/>\n To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from<br \/>\nthe power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins,<br \/>\nand inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unilateral forgiveness is imaginary forgiveness.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I was forgiven BEFORE I repented.\u201d Not exactly. If you were, then you would not need to receive it. \u201cThe penalty\/debt was paid and justice was met at the Cross.\u201d True. \u201cI simply need to receive that forgiveness.\u201d If I offer you a dollar and you refuse to take the dollar, who has the dollar? [&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-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","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=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}