What is forgiveness?
Trying to rebuild relationships after a wrongdoing
It enables wrongs to be acknowledged and relationships to be rebuilt
Does true forgiveness exist?
It is not about forgetting about wrongs done to us in fact, it often involves exactly the opposite
Do you forgive properly? We have to remember the wrongs done analyse them understand them except them and continue with our live lives.
Can we learn to forgive?
All religions have cleared teachings about the importance of forgiveness
They don’t suggest forgiving is easy or that it comes without further conflict
They are clear that forgiving enables believers to reach a deeper spiritual understanding about themselves
We learned to forgive through our own human experience through reading religious teachings and through being forgiven by others
What are Christian attitudes towards forgiveness?
It is a prominent theme within Christianity and within the Bible as a whole
The actions of Jesus offer a further example of Christians to follow and they are expected to do so
Bible stories clearly demonstrate the importance of forgiveness
For Catholics, forgiveness is support through confession and religious acts of atonement
What are Muslim attitudes towards forgiveness?
The Qur’an states that those who forgive others will be rewarded by God and that forgiveness is the path to peace
Islam accepts that human beings are not perfect and that everybody makes mistakes in their life
There are two kinds of forgiveness, God’s forgiveness and human forgiveness
Humans are in need of both kinds of forgiveness and they make mistakes in their own action towards both God and other humans
