Thursday, April 11, 2013

FORGIVING THE ABUSER

In her book "Meeting Myself", Brenda J. Wood talks about forgiving a now dead relative who abused her when she was twelve. She recounts going to the abuser's gravesite, weeping for him and praying that he is in Heaven.

While it is definitely essential for a victim to forgive an abuser for the sake of being right with God as well as for their own personal peace of mind, I don't agree with weeping over the fact that a dead abuser wasn't saved and praying that he is in glory. God is a god of justice and a pedophile deserves the death penalty and to spend eternity in Hell. Also, the whole praying that they're in Heaven thing is kind of skirting the Catholic teaching that you can pray someone out of purgatory in my opinion.

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