“Before we knew we needed to be forgiven, God offers a sacrifice to make forgiveness possible. … The nearest analogy would be me insulting [someone], and me not being sorry about it at all, and him coming to me and making it clear through the most gracious and kind means possible that he was happy to forgive me. And he offers me forgiveness as a gift. And the way you accept that kind of offer of forgiveness is through repentance. You say sorry. Sorry doesn’t become the means by which you earn forgiveness. Sorry simply now becomes the means by which you receive forgiveness. And it is inherently humbling. … True Christian conversion is inherently humbling, it’s not incidentally humbling. Humility isn’t something you do on the side.” — Michael Ramsden in a podcast titled “Is Christianity Arrogant?”
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 01:59:49 +0000