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    Accepting God's forgiveness sincerely and contritely open... — Carmelics
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    Accepting God's forgiveness sincerely and contritely opens a person to the possibility of beginning anew.

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    • 1.God can forgive the unforgivable.
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    • 2.If forgiveness is accepted sincerely, inwardly, contritely, with gratitude and hope, the obstacle to joy is removed.
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    • 1.Genuine moral renewal requires confronting and owning one's past, not having it erased through an external act of divine absolution.
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    • 2.Nietzsche and secular existentialists argue that the self is constituted by its history, so 'beginning anew' via forgiveness may produce self-deception rather than authentic transformation.
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    • 3.A person who relies on divine forgiveness to remove guilt may never develop the internal moral resources necessary for genuine character change.
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    • 1.Kant's moral framework holds that moral worth depends solely on autonomous rational agency, making divine forgiveness morally irrelevant to genuine ethical renewal.
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    • 2.Accepting an external agent's forgiveness as the condition for new beginnings subordinates moral autonomy to heteronomous dependence, undermining the very selfhood required for authentic contrition.
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    Crucial to the miracle of Christian faith is the realization that over against God we are always in the wrong. That is, we must realize that we are always in sin. This is the condition for faith, and must be given by God. The idea of sin cannot evolve from purely human origins. Rather, it must have been introduced into the world from a transcendent source. Once we understand that we are in sin, we can understand that there is some being over against which we are always in the wrong. On this basi
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