We should not forgive someone who is not sorry, even God does not do that. Claiming to forgive without reconciliation is just hot air; it means nothing.
Luke 17:3-4 "3 Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4 Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
"If he comes and says I repent" is the key to reconciliation. This means we have no relationship unless both confession and forgiveness happen. They are two sides of the same coin.
This does not mean we treat anyone disrespectfully when we encounter them on the street. God said Bless those who curse us, but this is not a relationship.
God would not ask us to do differently from what He does. He said that "Unless you repent, you will not see the kingdom of God." In other words, you will not have God's inheritance or a relationship with Him if you do not repent.
It is a sin to pressure a believer to forgive an unrepentant person; it is against God's principles. We have forgiveness in our hearts and desire to reconcile, but when someone refuses to be sorry, we cannot extend forgiveness. Forgiving God's way brings spiritual and emotional growth; nothing else we do will do that.
It is psychology that teaches to forgive even if someone is not sorry; it came from Darwinism, not the Bible.
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