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Originally Posted by SISTER Murphy
You bring up a subject that was soundly addressed, and refuted, at our district ladies' conference, by none other Sister Lynda Allison Doty. Can you find any place in the Bible that speaks of an individual forgiving himself? Go ahead and look, but it ain't there. The only forgiveness spoken of in the Bible is of God's forgiveness to us of our sins, and our forgiveness to others for their trespasses against us. To tell somebody he must 'forgive himself' is actually saying he has to 'save himself'. This is not possible. The real issue is that people struggle with accepting God's forgiveness and leaving their past in the past.
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I understand what you are saying and it isn't in the Bible that one is to forgive oneself-yet there are multitudes under a burden of guilt.
One can beat ones self up for what one has done and can be released when one forgives himself.
Very similar to forgiving someone for something they did or didn't do even though they are not around.
Example is I stood in a service and forgave my dad for committing suicide when I was 4, and for my mom turning into an alcoholic and dying when I was 18.
I felt a release when I did si, yet forgiving dead people isn't in the Bible.
Yet, isn't forgiveness a releasing of someone for a debt/trespass owed?
Not in the Bible-but it works.
And I understand, I was raised apostolic and backslid for about almost 13 yrs and have been back 7 yrs. so different roads yes but understand. 
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