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Me:\u00a0 I am glad we got to spend this time together.<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Me too!<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 We might as well discuss a little about Jesus too.<\/p>\n

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This is from C.S. Lewis<\/p>\n

Now unless the speaker is God, (forgiving sin) is really so preposterous as to be comic.\u00a0 We can all understand how a man forgives offences against himself.\u00a0 You tread on my toe and I forgive you, you steal my money and I forgive you.\u00a0 But what should we make of a man, himself unrobbed and untrodden on, who announced that he forgave you for treading on another man’s toes and stealing other men’s money?\u00a0 Asinine fatuity is the kindest description we should give of his conduct.\u00a0 Yet this is what Jesus did.\u00a0 He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured.\u00a0 He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offences.\u00a0 This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.\u00a0 In the mouth of any speaker who is not God, these words would imply what I can only regard as a silliness and conceit unrivalled by any other character in history.<\/p>\n

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1 John 5:9<\/p>\n

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater:\u00a0 for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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