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    Joy follows from properly accepting God's forgiveness. — Carmelics
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    Supports→The only obstacle to the joy of beginning anew is a person's refusal or resistance to accepting God's forgiveness properly.

    Joy follows from properly accepting God's forgiveness.

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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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