What is forgiveness? It seems odd to ask this simple question in the 3rd post. When one desires to know the deep things of Yah, we need fewer assumptions, ask sincere honest questions

To do this, we need to suspend our expectations, which leads to bias.

This link is a good starting point to explore the question, What is forgiveness?

This article says that forgiveness in the Bible is a “release” or a “dismissal” of something.

This simple and profound statement has support from BLB’s Greek lexicon and the Word.

Forgiveness, according to BLB’s Greek Lexicon, G863 (verb) and G859 (noun), is about letting go or pardoning a debt and its penalty.

Heb9:22 and Mat26:28 reveal Yah’s forgiveness that underpins man’s salvation through the sacrifice of His Son on the cross; the Lord Jesus’ blood and suffering death is the basis that allows Yah to forgive man’s sins (Heb9:22, Mat26:28).

The scope and boundaries of forgiveness are found in how Yah/Christ has forgiven us (Col3:13, Eph4:32).

 Unpacking the above will reveal the disciple’s forgiveness scope and boundaries beyond the basic foundations of forgiveness shared in the 1st post.

Yah’s forgiveness operates on 2 levels corresponding to spiritual and soul salvation.

Spiritual salvation is a gift (Eph2:8-9). So, this forgiveness does not need to be earned as it is based on a decision to let go or pardon a debt and its penalty.

Therefore, the disciple needs to make an unqualified decision to forgive, to let go of the cry for justice by pardoning the sinful debt of the offender.

Would not such an unqualified forgiveness be unjust?

Conclusion

The forgiveness story does not end here. It would be unrighteous if it did. It needs the soul salvation journey of forgiveness to do justice to the unjustly treated disciple that honors Yah.