tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512734048150861589.post7614096651885526337..comments2024-02-24T13:37:03.608-08:00Comments on holy scribbler: forgiving, forgiven - a sample of biblical textsEd Searcyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05893196406561385183noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512734048150861589.post-18316643356244346762012-11-08T17:12:21.935-08:002012-11-08T17:12:21.935-08:00Thanks for this Janice. Yes, there are crucial tex...Thanks for this Janice. Yes, there are crucial texts that do not mention forgiveness but are essential to the grammar of forgiveness, understood biblically. Last week our discussion included rich conversation about the connection between 'grace' and 'forgiveness'. The journey to forgiveness is made possible by grace and is included the story that we shorthand when we speak of God's grace.Ed Searcyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05893196406561385183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6512734048150861589.post-1276582217001980642012-11-08T17:00:25.400-08:002012-11-08T17:00:25.400-08:00Although it does not mention forgiveness specifica...Although it does not mention forgiveness specifically, the text that often comes to mind for me is Isaiah 64:6a..."We have all become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth." In the presence of the pure righteousness of God, we fallen humans are all on level ground and equally in need of and have the opportunity to receive God's mercy and grace. I think Flannery O'Connor captures this near the end of "Revelation" when in Mrs. Turpin's vision she sees her 'own kind' trailing at the end and that "...by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away."Janicenoreply@blogger.com