Comments on: Acceptable sinners http://www.anchormast.com/2007/08/10/acceptable-sinners/ Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast - Khalil Gibran Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: joyce http://www.anchormast.com/2007/08/10/acceptable-sinners/comment-page-1/#comment-395 joyce Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:27:48 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/08/10/acceptable-sinners/#comment-395 excellent post. a backdoor view, and one that is certainly difficult, especially when the one who is using women in this way is not penetent. excellent post.
a backdoor view, and one that is certainly difficult, especially when the one who is using women in this way is not penetent.

]]> By: lisa http://www.anchormast.com/2007/08/10/acceptable-sinners/comment-page-1/#comment-391 lisa Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:07:33 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/08/10/acceptable-sinners/#comment-391 I know Jesus' words 'forgive your enemies' has been the hardest thing for me to incorporate into my life. It isn't easy, and when I encounter behavior that I feel is truly evil, I cannot bring myself to feel forgiveness. I wonder if that is what is meant by 'unforgivable sin'. Still, who is to decide what is unforgivable? Thank you for this excellent post. Really got me thinking today. I know Jesus’ words ‘forgive your enemies’ has been the hardest thing for me to incorporate into my life. It isn’t easy, and when I encounter behavior that I feel is truly evil, I cannot bring myself to feel forgiveness. I wonder if that is what is meant by ‘unforgivable sin’. Still, who is to decide what is unforgivable?

Thank you for this excellent post. Really got me thinking today.

]]> By: HeyJules http://www.anchormast.com/2007/08/10/acceptable-sinners/comment-page-1/#comment-389 HeyJules Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:39:48 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/08/10/acceptable-sinners/#comment-389 Yes, it is a tough one, isn't it? I have the same feelings that you seem to have on the subject and yet, I too, find myself wanting only to forgive the "victims" and not the others. But how do we really know who the victims ARE? How do we know that the men viewing the porn aren't victims themselves? What brought them to this place, this point? THAT'S how I try to offer the forgiveness - by remembering that everyone here on earth is living in the reach of sin and most have had the pain of other's sins brought onto them and are reacting to those sins in their own sinful ways. I often wonder if this is why Jesus loves everyone? Because He, alone, knows how broken we ALL are? Yes, it is a tough one, isn’t it? I have the same feelings that you seem to have on the subject and yet, I too, find myself wanting only to forgive the “victims” and not the others.

But how do we really know who the victims ARE? How do we know that the men viewing the porn aren’t victims themselves? What brought them to this place, this point?

THAT’S how I try to offer the forgiveness – by remembering that everyone here on earth is living in the reach of sin and most have had the pain of other’s sins brought onto them and are reacting to those sins in their own sinful ways.

I often wonder if this is why Jesus loves everyone? Because He, alone, knows how broken we ALL are?

]]> By: Maya http://www.anchormast.com/2007/08/10/acceptable-sinners/comment-page-1/#comment-387 Maya Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:51:53 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/2007/08/10/acceptable-sinners/#comment-387 You really hit a nerve with me here. I work with so many women who've been abused one way or the other and several years back it occurred to me that I might also have to work with or even just refer the ABUSER for help as well. I had the same concentration in terms of the sinner-victim, but I wasn't thinking of the sinner-perp. Ah well. We live and grow. Just know you're not alone. :D You really hit a nerve with me here. I work with so many women who’ve been abused one way or the other and several years back it occurred to me that I might also have to work with or even just refer the ABUSER for help as well. I had the same concentration in terms of the sinner-victim, but I wasn’t thinking of the sinner-perp. Ah well. We live and grow. Just know you’re not alone. :D

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