Someone wrote to me several weeks ago telling me that my asking for forgiveness was just me stroking my own ego. It seems that when you ask for forgiveness, that's not what you really want. (I'm paraphrasing here) What you really want is to feel superior to the person you're asking to forgive you. Huh?
I thought that when you felt you had offended someone and then felt badly about it (for whatever reason) and you asked that person to forgive your stupidity, you were offering peace. I didn't realize I was boosting my own ego. So, when I ask God to forgive my sins...
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That part about 'asking forgiveness is really your stroking your own ego' sounds like psychiatic gobbledegook to me!
I thought that to ask for forgiveness for an offense (whether real or imagined) was to offer peace and reconciliation.
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