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.”
It is not the love of God to forgive someone who is not sorry, repentance is vital to a changed heart and a change in behavior.
The goal of forgiveness is not to make ourselves feel superior to others by blindly forgiving without any accountability. Our goal is that the offender will repent and have a changed life. If they refuse to repent that is on them.
We do not feel bitterness for not giving out forgiveness to an unrepentant offender. But we are more likely to feel bitterness when we are intimidated to "say" we forgive them when they are not sorry.
Psychology has ruined the faith of many by demanding what God never demanded. And, notice we don't hear anyone rebuking the offender to repent, the pressure is always on the offended party to forgive even if the offender is not sorry and will not stop their antics.
Why do people ignore the phrase in the passage;? "and returns to say I repent."
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