Repentance Toward God and the Offended

The only one who can forgive an offender is God and the offended. Anyone else has no right to forgive an offense against someone else.

It is irritating to witness these court cases in which a murderer on trial who is not repentant is forgiven by family members. The perp cannot ask forgiveness of the victim because they are dead. The only One Who can forgive them is God.

We have no right to take on the offense of someone else and act like its ours to forgive.

It is offensive to me when a perp tells someone they are sorry about how they treated someone else but do not have the courage to go to the one they have offended.

Offenses are toward God and the one whom we wronged, no one else should be involved in that except to chastise the offender so they see their need for repentance.

Matthew 23:23-24 "23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."