Should Protestants try to convert Roman Catholics?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

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Questions at CoreChristianity.com. First up today, here's a voicemail from one of our listeners.

This is Carol. My question was, I've often heard from pastors and others that in order for you

to forgive others, you have to forgive yourself first. And I have always

questioned that in my mind. I just didn't understand the concept. I didn't see anything in

scripture that said that you should forgive yourself first before forgiving others. So I just

wanted to know if you have ever heard that teaching or if you

have, do you have any comments on it? Thank you. Yeah, Carol, I mean, I feel like this is a part of

just our therapeutic age where you get a lot of this kind of language and you just kind of forgive

yourself. That's the main thing. to forgive yourself um that's the main thing just just forgive

yourself here's the thing we don't give or grant forgiveness to anyone even ourselves forgiveness

first and foremost comes directly from the lord because the lord is the one who has been sinned

against and so in terms of the forgiveness of sins, we need God's

pardon. We need the forgiveness that comes from above. And that's what Jesus Christ gives to us.

That's what he has the authority to do as the Son of God is forgive all of our sins because he is

the one who's been offended by our sins. And so we go to him and receive forgiveness.

Now, it's a problem

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