Apalagy?

Wouldn't it have been nice if MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Kenyan-not-Hawaiian-born Obama, and staff of NARAL, and those espousing Planned Parenthood [a.k.a. Planned Parentlessness, Planned Promiscuity, etc.] who support committing (and not "performing") abortion homicide . . . would themselves have been aborted in the wombs?

In their case, would not them being aborted have been considered beneficial execution instead of murder?

As Jesus Himself might have said:

Mt 26:24 The Son of man goes as it is written of [them], but woe to [those women] by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for [them] if [they] had not been born."
Mr 14:21 For the Son of man goes as it is written of [them], but woe to [those women] by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It would have been better for [them] if [they] had not been born."

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Suppose I walked up to you, and said: "I apologize."

Your typical response would probably be: "For what?"

If I gave an answer like: "Oh, nothing;" or gave an answer claiming nothing abnormal or unusual or in any way harmful, your follow-up response might be a puzzled and disdainful look or frown, with or without the remark: "Do you feel OK?" or "Is there something wrong with you?"

However, if I had actually done something which only I regarded as somewhat inconveniencing or harmful to you, but which you did not regard as inconveniencing or harmful to yourself, your response back to me might be something like: "That's OK. Don't worry about it."

Now, if I had done something which not merely I, but you also regarded as inconveniencing or harmful to you, your response, type of response, and intensity of response would be determined by in what way or ways and how seriously or severely you deemed that I had inconvenienced or harmed you.

Typically, when a car horn is blown behind us or around us as we are on a road or highway, the honker has either accidently pressed his horn, or deliberately pushed on the horn because he or she recognizes and wants to greet us or convey a friendly notification of associative approval, or instead beeped or laid on the horn to punish us for some driving infraction we committed, or the judgmental and/or impatient honker [playing the part of judge/jury/executioner] presumes we committed - in his or her opinion. That infraction usually involves some kind of trespass into space the honker feels belongs to him or her at the time, and the most serious cases escalate into potentially dangerous and even fatal expressions of road rage:

Ps 10:2 In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes which they have devised.
3 For the wicked boasts of the desires of his heart, and the man greedy for gain curses and renounces the LORD.
4 In the pride of his countenance the [atheistic or agnostically-skeptical] wicked does not seek Him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."
5 His ways prosper at all times; thy judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.
6 He thinks in his heart, "I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity."
7 His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under his tongue are mischief and iniquity.
8 He sits in ambush in the villages; in hiding places he murders the innocent. His eyes stealthily watch for the hapless,
9 he lurks in secret like a lion in his covert; he lurks that he may seize the poor, he seizes the poor when he draws him into his net.
10 The hapless is crushed, sinks down, and falls by his might.
11 He thinks in his heart, "God has forgotten, He has hidden his face, he will never see it."
12 Arise, Oh LORD; Oh God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.
13 Why do the wicked renounce God, and say in their heart, "You will not call to account"?
14 You do see; yes, you do note trouble and vexation, that you may take it into your hands; the hapless commits himself to you; you have been the helper of the fatherless.
15 You break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; seek out his wickedness till you find none.
16 The LORD is king forever; the nations shall perish from His land.
17 Oh LORD,you will hear the desire of the meek; you will strengthen their heart, you will incline your ear
18 to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, so that man who is of the earth may strike terror no more.

Pr 3:29 Do not plan evil against your neighbor who dwells trustingly beside you.
Pr 3:30 Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.
Pr 10:18 He who conceals hatred has lying lips, and he who utters slander is a fool.
Pr 11:9 With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
Pr 12:16 The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent man ignores an insult.
Pr 13:3 He who guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
Pr 17:14 The beginning of strife is like letting out water; so quit before the quarrel breaks out.
Pr 18:6 A fool's lips bring strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
Pr 19:1 Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a man who is perverse in speech, and is a fool.
Pr 21:23 He who keeps his mouth and his tongue keeps himself out of trouble.
Pr 29:11 A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man quietly holds it back.

Pr 30:32 If you have been foolish, exalting yourself, or if you have been devising evil, put your hand on your mouth.
Pr 30:33 For pressing milk produces curds, pressing the nose produces blood, and pressing anger produces strife.

Ec 7:8 Better is the end of a thing than its beginning; and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

Ec 10:3 Even when the fool walks on the road, he lacks sense, and he says to every one that he is a fool.

Jer 9:8 Their tongue is a deadly arrow; it speaks deceitfully; with his mouth each speaks peaceably to his neighbor, but in his heart he plans an ambush for him.

Jas 3:5 Even so the tongue is a little member and boasts great things. Hey, how great a forest a little fire kindles!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of evil. So is the tongue among our members that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire from hell.
7 For every kind of beast and bird and reptile and thing in the sea is tamed, and hath been tamed, by humankind.
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
9 With it we bless God, even the Father, and with it we curse men who are made in the likeness of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
11 Does a fountain send forth from the same place sweet water and bitter?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries, or a vine figs? So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
13 Who is a wise human and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show his works out of good conduct and with the meekness of wisdom.
14 But if you all have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 Such wisdom descends not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace of those who make peace.

Jas 4:11 Do not speak evil against one another, brethren. He that speaks evil against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Jas 4:12 There is one Lawgiver and Judge, He who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you that you judge your neighbor?

So - perception, assumption, or presuming of territory which has been infringed upon without permission and without authorization relates behooves the infringer to give various types and degrees of apology.

Sometimes, apologies by words alone are not enough - not merely when someone's personal space or territory has been intruded into - but when they have been denigrated by reputational-damaging slander, by being cheated out of goods or services, or robbed by embezzlement or physical force (with or without weapons involved), to which the following verses apply:

Ps 139:21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Oh LORD? And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
Ps 139:22 I hate them with perfect hatred; I consider them my enemies.

Pr 11:16 A gracious woman gets honor, and violent men get riches.

Pr 20:19 He who goes about gossiping reveals secrets; therefore do not associate with one who speaks foolishly.

Mt 5:38 You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'
39 But I say to you, Do not resist one who is evil. If any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also
40 and if any one would sue you and take your coat, let him have your cloak as well;
41 and if any one forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles.
42 Give to him who begs from you, and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.
43 You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the injust.
46 For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47 And if you salute only your brethren, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
48 You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

Mt 7:6 Do not give dogs what is holy; and do not throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under foot and turn to attack you.

Ro 12:9 Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to what is good;
Ro 16:17 I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.

1Co 6:7 To have lawsuits at all with one another is defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?
1Co 6:8 But you yourselves wrong and defraud, and that even your own brethren.

[ If you must, and can afford it, and have the time for it, counter-sue. If you lose, appeal it to a higher court ].

Eph 5:7 Therefore do not associate with them,

1Ti 6:20 Oh Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the godless chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called ["scientific"] knowledge,
2Ti 2:14 Remind them of this, and charge them before the Lord to avoid disputing about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.
2Ti 2:16 Avoid such godless chatter, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness,
2Ti 3:5 holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.

Tit 3:1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for any honest work,
Tit 3:2 to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all men.
Tit 3:9 But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile.
Tit 3:10 As for a man who is factious, after admonishing him once or twice, have nothing more to do with him,
Tit 3:11 knowing that such a person is perverted and sinful; he is self-condemned.

Getting closer to dealing with the Creator (or God) Himself, we all are well aware that apologies for illegal wrongdoing to police officers from who those cops evaluate as being lawbreakers are insufficient to belay and bypass reception and acceptance of a more-than-words-only citation regardless of regret and promise of reconciliation.

When law-enforcement officers in squad cars come up from behind to vehicles ahead with blue-and-red lights flashing, and the drivers of those vehicles notice the scary display right behind them in their rear-view mirrors, sensible motorists pull over and stop. If they do not stop, they get chased, and both police and sheriff have to their great advantage an increasingly-powerful and potentially-expansive backup hierarchy of authority they can and, if necessary, do contact with special radio frequencies . . . and then the dire consequence for offending motorists is similar to what occurs if those motorists do not present their Driver's Licenses and Registration Certificates and Insurance Cards to peace officers at the car windows when they ask for those:

Ex 22:1 If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. He shall make restitution; if he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Ex 22:5 When a man causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over, or lets his beast loose and it feeds in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.
Ex 22:6 When fire breaks out and catches in thorns so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, he that kindled the fire shall make full restitution.
Ex 22:11 an oath by the LORD shall be between them both to see whether he has not put his hand to his neighbor's property; and the owner shall accept the oath, and he shall not make restitution.
Ex 22:12 But if it is stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.
Ex 22:13 If it is torn by beasts, let him bring it as evidence; he shall not make restitution for what has been torn.
Ex 22:14 If a man borrows anything of his neighbor, and it is hurt or dies, the owner not being with it, he shall make full restitution.
Ex 22:15 If the owner was with it, he shall not make restitution; if it was hired, it came for its hire.

Le 5:16 He shall also make restitution for what he has done amiss in the holy thing, and shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he shall be forgiven.

Nu 5:7 he shall confess his sin which he has committed; and he shall make full restitution for his wrong, adding a fifth to it, and giving it to him to whom he did the wrong.
Nu 5:8 But if the man has no kinsman to whom restitution may be made for the wrong, the restitution for wrong shall go to the LORD for the priest, in addition to the ram of atonement with which atonement is made for him.

Isa 2:9 So man is humbled, and men are brought low--forgive them not!

Jer 14:10 Thus says the LORD concerning this people: "They have loved to wander thus, they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them, now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins."
Jer 14:12 Though they fast, I will not hear their cry, and though they offer burnt offering and cereal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence."
Jer 18:23 Yet, you, LORD, know all their plotting to slay me. Forgive not their iniquity, nor blot out their sin from your sight. Let them be overthrown before you; deal with them in the time of your anger.

Ho 1:6 She conceived again and bore a daughter. And the LORD said to him, "Call her name Not pitied, for I will no more have pity on the house of Israel, to forgive them at all.

Am 5:22 Even though you offer me your burnt offerings and cereal offerings, I will not accept them, and the peace offerings of your fatted beasts I will not look upon.

Mal 1:10 "Oh, that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire upon my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says the LORD of hosts, "and I will not accept an offering from your hand."

Mt 5:25 Make friends quickly with your accuser, while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison;
Mt 5:26 truly, I say to you, you will never get out till you have paid the last penny.

Lu 12:58 As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.
Lu 12:59 I tell you, you will never get out till you have paid the very last copper.

Ro 13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.
2 Therefore he who resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
3 For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of him who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval,
4 for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain; he is the servant of God to execute his wrath on the wrongdoer.
5 Therefore one must be subject, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience.

On what grounds do police and sheriff make arrests for whatever is arrestable? Is the motorist violating the officer's ever-changing personal driving space or geographical territory? Are inaudible insults being uttered at the cop from vehicles which cannot talk or even whisper vulgarities or disrespectful slurs?

Usually not. What is involved in police arrests is sometimes a moving violation - such as happens in a football game for certain game-rule infractions which the referees, functioning as umpires, call against players for small-to-great back-yardage-and-other penalties (e.g. illegal motion in the backfield, offsides, roughing the kicker, unsportsmanlike conduct, pass interference, clipping, delay of game, etc.)

In the case of police and sheriff, the territories they govern are usually confined to limited localities, and the higher the law-enforcement category of officers, they greater the territories they have jurisdiction over. Local police usually restrict their patrolling to certain city limits. Sheriffs roam counties. State patrol and state police govern entire states, and federal marshals along with F.B.I. and their ilk regulate occupants on a national level.

Indeed, whenever one steps into the vehicle of another person, they are then under the sovereign rule of the owner (and usually driver) of the vehicle - besides being subject to city, county, state, and federal laws of all types.

Ec 5:8 If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.

Ac 25:11 If then I am a wrongdoer, and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death; but if there is nothing in their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar."
Ac 25:12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with his council, answered, "You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go."

The ultimate singular human authority in America is The Commander-in-Chief (presently Barack Obama), followed by the Vice President Biden, Speaker of the House Boehner, etc. in that order. Being that this webpage author resides in and is a citizen of the United States, Barack Obama presently has even more authority for him and other Americans globally than any prime minister of any other country, such as Putin in Russia and even Netanyahu in Israel.

People in a slight majority have voted Obama in to be in charge of the territory of American states and the laws thereof. But such human-designated authority is transcient, passing, and in many constricting ways, limited in power, duration, and interests.

Most people are pathetically unaware of the rightful authority that the Divine Creator has over them, which is ironically puzzling . . . in honestly-acknowledged view of the very God-given-and-repeatedly-restored bodies such people inhabit facilitating their miraculous wound-healings, constant blood flow, muscle movements, digestion, anti-disease immunity and much more, the invaribly-right-composition air they breathe, the perfect-amount gravity that keeps them comfortably down rather than crushed to the ground or flying off away from Earth, the clockwork-precise sunrise/sunset sunlight from a perfectly-distanced-Sun enabling them to see and grow food, the protective borealis radiation belts around the planet, the tolerable-climate temperatures and convenient-variety weather, etc.

Such things are taken for granted by most, most of the time, of which entities and phenomena deplorably non-thinking and thus pathetically-stupid human creatures both illogically and wrongly presume have created themselves by themselves via impossibly-random chance and non-explainable change.

Yet, Biblical creationists are quite cognizant of the real-time extremely-intimate integration each human being has every second of every minute of every hour of every day with the coincidentally-providential, sincere-prayers-answering, Acts-of-God-displaying Creator who is (by logical deductive realization of His nature, is not only greater than anything He created but also indestructable and continuously-existing) - according to the Bible - actively interested and involved in the status and well-being of his created humans.

Is our benign and benevolent Creator, so accommodating to us humans as to the remarkably- good and pleasant environment He has put us into and so nicely, reliably, and immaculately maintains, that much different than our nearby neighbors, relatives, and business partners as to whether or not we please or compliment or disappoint or irritate or enrage Him by our implicit and explicit words and behavior?

When we get to who we discover by Scripture the truly-awesome, divinely-omnipotent, universally-omnicient, ongoing sentience is who is frighteningly interactive and wonderfully-for cooperative but devastatingly-against non-compliant humans, we ascend into echelons way beyond our neighbors, relatives, business partners - even the police or any known military force in whole or in part.

Why apologize to God for anything? Did God the Creator simply start everything in motion after creating it in this Universe, then mysteriously self-destruct in regretful remorse and manic drpression . . . or (and in complete indifference) casually or irresponsibly take an eternal permanent vacation off wherever and however to create something else before moving on again to escape everlasting boredom?

It is obvious that a Creator at least has existed in the past to create everything around us, and the nature of environmental entities surrounding us clearly show the observant and perceptive that that Creator at least was fortunately very accommodating and benign as to what He or They created.

IF we [dangerously] hurt the feelings of someone with an repeated or extreme insult or injustice, and it is possible to make amends by penitent humble comments of earnest pacification (which some call "confession"), the following sometimes happens:

Mt 6:14 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father also will forgive you;
Mt 6:15 but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Mt 18:15 If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Mr 11:25 And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against any one; so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Lu 5:24 But that you may know that the Son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins" --he said to the man who was paralyzed: "I say to you, rise, take up your bed and go home."

Lu 6:37 Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven;
Lu 11:4 and forgive us our sins, for we ourselves forgive every one who is indebted to us; and lead us not into temptation."

Lu 17:3 Beware for yourselves; if your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him;
Lu 17:4 and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, and says, 'I repent,' you must forgive him."
Lu 23:34 And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them [them WHO?]; for they know not what they do." And they gambled to divide his garments.

Joh 20:23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained."

2Co 2:7 so you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. 2Co 2:10 Any one whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ

Col 3:5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, porno-impurity, lustful passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.
6 On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
7 In these you once walked, when you lived in them.
8 But now put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth.
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices
10 and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its Creator.
11 Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and non-circumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.
12 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience,
13 forbearing one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
14 And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body. And be thankful.
16 Let the word of Christ reside in you richly, teach and correct one another in all wisdom, and sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
18 Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
20 Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord.
21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
22 Slaves, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but in singleness of heart, fearing the Lord.
23 Whatever your task, work heartily, as serving the Lord and not men,
24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you are serving the Lord Christ.
25 For the wrongdoer will be requited for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

Ro 14:15 If your brother is being injured by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not let what you eat cause the ruin of one for whom Christ died.

Heb 12:15 See to it that no one fail to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness spring up and cause trouble, and by it the many become defiled

1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just, and will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Sometimes, resentment and planned retaliation is intended, with or without word apologies . . . but at other times, like a judge or police officer dismissing a case for lack of evidence or on grounds of a technicality or merely decreeing probation or acquittal to a statute-ignorant first-time penitent offender, gracious mercy is manifested in absolution and acquittal replaces fines, imprisonment, or execution:

Ge 50:17 'Say to Joseph, "Forgive, I beg you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you.' And now, we implore you, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of your father." Joseph wept when they spoke to him.
Ex 10:17 "Now therefore, forgive my sin, I beg you, only this once, and entreat the LORD your God only to remove this death from me."
De 21:8 "Forgive, Oh LORD, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and set not the openly-evident guilt of innocent blood of your people Israel; but let the guilt of blood be forgiven them."

Jos 24:19 But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the LORD; for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

1Ki 8:30 And you respond to the petitions of your servant and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place; yes, you hear in heaven your residence; and when you hear, forgive.
1Ki 8:34 then you hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.
1Ki 8:36 then you hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when you do teach them the good way in which they should walk; and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.
1Ki 8:39 (paraphrase) then you hear in heaven your residence, and forgive, and act, and give to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways (for you - you only - know the hearts of all the children of men [and women, plus the adult men and women themselves);
1Ki 8:50 and forgive your people who have sinned against you, and all their transgressions which they have committed against you; and grant them compassion in the sight of those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them.

2Ch 7:14 if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Ne 9:17 they refused to obey, and were not mindful of the wonders which you did perform among them; but they stiffened their neck and appointed a leader to return to their bondage in Egypt. But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and profuse with continuous love, and did not reject them.

Ps 25:18 Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.

Ps 32:5 I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not hide my iniquity; I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD"; then you did forgive the guilt of my sin.

[ In other words, in graphic paraphrase:

I ignored you. I believed the lies of the heavy-handed discriminatory feminists, the Bible-suppressing ACLU, AUSCS, PAW, NOW, the anti-Christianity homogay-promoting satanspeak-weaselword media, the dishonest pseudo-scientific big-bang evolutionists in charge of my accreditation and scholastic achievement reports.

I presumed that you would never provide my secret sexual needs. Never provide them in time. Excessive abstinence was overpowered by relentless duress imposed by alluring enticing immodest females accidently encountered casually and carelessly flaunting loose long hair and sleevesless naked arms and slacksless nude legs and soxless feet advertised by their impudent and arrogantly-noisy flapping of flipflop sandals on warm-weather days; the porno-availability temptations were too strong.

But I divulged by indulgences in masseuse-and-escort-harlot erotic deviancies. I said, "I admit my porno-pix-and-vids short-circuit-sex jackoff screwups to the LORD, then you did forgive the guilt of my lurid-sensuality-track-record sin. ]

Ps 65:3 When our transgressions prevail over us, you do forgive them.
Ps 79:9 Help us, Oh God of our salvation, for the glory of your name; deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name's sake!
Ps 85:2 (paraphrase) You did forgive the iniquity of your religious right-wing conservative fundamentalists; you did pardon all their sin, despite the maliciously-hateful diatribes of relentlessly-scurrilous and hypocritically-legalistic leftys and divisive potty-mouthed subversives.

Jer 31:34 "And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," says the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."

Eze 16:63 (paraphrase) " . . . that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I forgive you all that you have done [for the sake of your Crucified-Dead-But-Risen Redeemer and Atonement, Jesus Christ - my Son]," says the Lord GOD."

WHY does God do things what He does, and do things the way He does them?

Because He can.

2012 Prez-Candidate Exposees @ http://videoclips12.tripod.com [ revised 16 May 2012 ]