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Race and Color and Forgiveness
So I met this guy as we entered college, really smart guy, spoke lots of languages, hispanic last name, told me his heritage is mostly Filipino--or at least that's the part he most identifies with. He's definitely not a white guy, but a couple shades lighter than Halle Berry.
Cut to now, and the same guy is making a name for himself as an aspiring newscaster who's also (paraphrasing) "a rare creature--a single African-American Mormon male in his 30s," and, incidentally, now 3 years younger than me.
Am I wrong to think this is a little odd?
As for forgiveness, I've always understood it to have the same underlying basis as repentance--getting rid of all that bad stuff that's clouding your relationship to God. If you don't want to carry around your own sins, why would you want to carry around someone else's? So you can completely eliminate someone from your life and still have forgiven them as long as you're not harboring any resentment.
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