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

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    • 1.God can forgive the unforgivable.
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    • 2.God cannot force anyone to accept forgiveness.
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    • 3.Joy follows from properly accepting God's forgiveness.
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    • 1.Structural guilt (Jaspers) and shame (Gabriele Taylor) constitute obstacles to renewal that are not reducible to refusal of divine forgiveness.
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    • 2.A person can sincerely accept God's forgiveness and still be psychologically incapacitated by self-condemnation, as Bernard Williams's work on moral residue demonstrates.
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    • 1.Arendt argues that genuine new beginnings require a human intersubjective act of forgiveness, not a unilateral divine transaction.
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    • 2.If the relational damage caused by wrongdoing persists independent of God's pardon, then divine forgiveness alone is structurally insufficient to restore the conditions for joy.
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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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