The Meaning and Significance for Christians Today of Forgiveness

The Meaning and Significance for Christians Today of Forgiveness

When Jesus died on the cross, he died in order to forgive humanity of

its sins. God sacrificed his own son, in order to be able to forgive

us. He set an example for the future generations, to forgive. He

always forgave, and Christianity follows his teachings in which he

stressed that people that they had to be ready and willing to forgive

to be forgiven yourself. People do not take their lives in order to

forgive or be forgiven, but they practice the act of forgiveness on a

daily basis. They forgive people in daily life, may it be at work with

clients and work colleagues or at home with children. Without

forgiveness think of the chaos the world would be in. Everyone would

be holding grudges and hating people that even just once may have

annoyed them or done something that ordinarily would need forgiving.

People such a priests do devote their lives to the church, they

sacrifice certain things such as marriage and intercourse in order to

recognize and teach the ways of a Christian which, as Jesus taught,

involves forgiving.

The Roman Catholics use things like confessions to be forgiven. A

person seeking forgiveness tells a priest privately that which they

have done wrong and he or she is forgiven. Christian priests, as you

may have heard such a term before at a wedding, "by the power invested

in me", have in some ways power invested in them by God, not only to

pronounce two people as married, but to be able to forgive people of

their sins. People ask them for forgiveness and God through the Priest

forgives them.

Many go to baptisms in their Christian lives, another example of the

practice of forgiving. Children are born with original sin, and are

baptized when young for this original sin to be forgiven by God.

People are often baptized again when old enough to decide that they

wish to be. A believers baptism. People are forgiven of sins that they