Questions & Answers - Good News Staff - November 1976

Good News Staff

"If you forgive someone for something awful, how do you forget it? Or are forgiving and forgetting the same thing?" "Forgive and forget" is an old saying we have all heard, but it is not found in the Bible. While Christ taught that if our brother wrongs us and repents, we are to forgive him (even if this happens seventy times seven times! - Matthew 18:21-22), He did not require that we forget. In many cases, forgetting what our neighbor has done to us would be humanly impossible, although ideally that is what we should strive to do. (But if we can't completely forget, the very least we can do is to never mention the offense again or hold it against the person in any way.) - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library