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    Supports→Divine forgiveness consists in God rejoicing in our repentance — that is, God ceases to suffer on our account when we repent.

    This emotional change — from suffering to rejoicing — is a good candidate for divine forgiveness.

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    Divine forgiveness consists in God rejoicing in our repentance — that is, God ce...God, like any loving parent, suffers on our account when we do evil.When we repent, God feels our joy and ceases to suffer.

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    If divine forgiveness is possible, what is its nature? Douglas Drabkin reports that “there is no other way that God can forgive us, as far as I can see, except through a change in emotion” (1993: 237). What kind of emotional changes might be at issue? For many, the obvious candidate will be resentment. And so on this view, when we do wrong, God has resentment towards us. To follow Jonathan Edwards, we are “sinners in the hands of an angry God”. God forgives us by eliminating that resentment (though see Minas 1975).

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