[identity profile] x-rahne.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] xp_communication
To: Angelo Espinosa
From: Rahne Sinclair



I didn't realize that you believed people could, and had to, do it all by themselves.

I'm sorry if I upset you by saying that isn't what I think is true.

If I've still misunderstood, I apologize for that.

Rahne

Date: 2004-09-16 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-skin.livejournal.com
Not... all by ourselves. I do still have faith that we'll get help and guidance if we need it. But I think, if we're going to try, we have to believe we can achieve it. You see?

Angelo

Date: 2004-09-16 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-skin.livejournal.com
But then, why does Hell exist? If we can't atone for ourselves because it's already done?

Sometimes it's past fixing directly, Rahne. Sometimes the people we did wrong to are out of our reach. And the only way is to try and make up for it in other ways.

I... guess I can see your point. But I was raised to believe... there has to be some kind of penance. The bigger the sin... the more you have to do to get that forgiveness.

Date: 2004-09-16 09:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-skin.livejournal.com
That does make sense.

So what did Reverend Craig teach you you should do when something can't be fixed?

That's... part of it. There's definitely a part that's meant to teach you not to do again whatever you did. But another part, the way I know it, is to "pay" for what you did, for lack of a better way to put it.

There's a lot I still need to pay for.

Date: 2004-09-17 09:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] x-skin.livejournal.com
That's the difficult part, though. Living with it.

What I believe on this is... a bit confused, to be honest. I guess it's best put as... whether or not we can actually ever completely atone for what we've done, sometimes we need to believe we can, to keep going. And yeah, we can agree on the part about not being supposed to sin just because we're already saved.

It didn't bother me - this discussion helped me think it over some, after all. And I never thought you were saying forgiveness isn't possible. Just... the way I've always understood it, which is maybe different from the way you were taught, is that it doesn't come for free. You have to work for it - prove you truly want it, I suppose -and the worse the sin, the more work you have to do to make up for it. Which doesn't seem to be what you believe.

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