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Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

6181 Christian Forgiveness: The Debate!

Freedomain with Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Stefan Molyneux engages with a caller to explore the complexities of forgiveness from a Christian perspective. They discuss the balance between accountability and repentance, moral implications of forgiveness, and its relationship with societal justice, inviting listeners to rethink its role in fostering ethical communities.

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0:00.0

more the else if you want to we're talking about forgiveness right yes sir and then i have another

0:05.7

i have another subject if you don't mind as well well let's see how we do on the forgiveness

0:10.0

one and what time we have left no problem um the one about christian forgiveness and i've watched

0:15.7

your video on that um by the way my name is jordan first man man. A pleasure to meet you as well.

0:21.5

I've seen some of your content.

0:23.0

I've kept up with some of it, and I've been keeping abreast of, I guess, the whole new

0:27.3

Christian movement that's been coming from, I guess, the state of things in the U.S.

0:34.3

and how the progressive left has kind of just taken over the culture.

0:39.8

And so being a black American myself, I've kind of despaired over, I guess, well, in my community,

0:45.6

that in particular. But as far as Christian forgiveness goes, when I saw how Charlie Kirk's

0:51.5

wife responded and then how people kind of had a vitriolic response to that,

0:58.9

I think they misunderstand Christian forgiveness because it's not an abdication of responsibility.

1:06.1

Repentance is part of it, but it's also a dualist in terms of, well, you forgive the other person, give the

1:14.1

opportunity for forgiveness because it's not just a one-way street, it's two-way. Yes, there's repentance.

1:20.2

They have to say, you know, I did wrong. I'm coming to you to make it right between us, right?

1:26.8

But from the Christian perspective, you're not going to

1:29.6

hold on to that bitterness, and you're handing that bitterness over to God in a technical term.

1:34.9

And I'm coming from more of a reformed Baptist view.

1:41.3

Sorry, so the view you just described, is that your view?

1:47.6

It would be the view of reformed, reformed theology. Is that your view? Yes, sir. Okay, yeah. I just, I don't mean

1:53.9

harangue. I just want to know if you were describing somebody else's view. No, it's fine. It's

1:57.6

me. It's most definitely me. I hold that position. Okay, got it.

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