I also think our understanding of it may be flawed. As in…we will be forgiven by making up for them only…divine justice is a complex subject but I guess you get me.
There woud be justice and salvation. Not either or. But what do I know. Knowledge seems to trump everything. Seems…
Then you don’t know all the quotes about justice in the old and new testament lol.
But I guess, most religions have devolved into feel-good social events that don’t actually accomplish anything.
–Absolved. After atonement. And, of the atonement, it is the making of even-tone the transgressions. Not a blanket dismissal, but a reconciliation. A process, by which it’s mark is removed.