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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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