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Should Christians forgive?
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Should Christians forgive? Most Christians in the modern day agree on the below... Over the past ten years, the issue of forgiving has received much more attention in our society than before. Numerous books and articles on the subject have been published, national conferences have been held, and just this past year an international institute was founded to study forgiving. Why is there so much more interest now? Until recently, psychotherapists avoided the issue of forgiveness, because they thought it was too religious in nature. But that began to change after 1988, due to the advent of programs for the adult children of alcoholics and therapeutic work with victims of severe physical and sexual abuse. These led psychotherapists to discover and begin studying the importance of forgiving in psychological healing. As awareness in the therapeutic community grew, the issue of forgiving quickly entered the mainstream of our society, as a subject of...
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