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Here Jesus talks about heaven. Do you cancels peoples debts to you?

"Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy times seven times.

23 “Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him. 25 Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

26 “At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ 27 The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

28 “But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins.[i] He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.

29 “His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’

30 “But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.

32 “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ 34 In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

35 “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.” St. Matthew
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GirlPower · 26-30, F
Moral of the story: evil exists from top to bottom, even when masquerading as supreme goodness.
SW-User
@GirlPower Justice seems to be Injustice to the unrighteous
GirlPower · 26-30, F
@SW-User Torturing someone forever will seem like justice to the unrighteous.
Carazaa · F
@GirlPower Blaming God for your punishment is like a child yelling at her Mom when she hits her sister! We have to be more mature than that. God has rules and we need to follow them and be grateful he visited us and died for all our sins so we DO NOT HAVE TO BE PUNISHED FOR ETERNITY!
bystander · 70-79, M
@Carazaa that god thing you invented isn’t my parent and if the only way it knows to parent is threats and punishments and raving on about how much it hurts it to do awful things to me, then I wouldn’t want the thing anywhere near me.
Carazaa · F
@bystander OK your choice, not very smart!

I choose to be grateful, blessed and have my prayers answered. 🙂