Answer to Question #182721 in English for leena

Question

Reverend Manning points to the intersection of faith and forgiveness as a tenet of Christianity. How does Reverend Manning draw a connection between the tragedy at Mother Emanuel Church and Jesus’s own life?

There is a video but it's on my revel website so here is the article I found. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/charleston-emanuel-church-memorial.html. Read this first.

Answer 1

The message of forgiveness surprized the country, but those words set the tone and unified the public when it could have certainly gone in a conflicting direction. Reverend Manning points out that forgiveness is harmony, and he anticipates others appreciate it has the power to reconcile and make peace. Thus, In John's Gospel (20:23), Jesus articulates to his disciples, "If you forgive anyone's sins, their sins are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven".