Murphy continues: “Both (forgiveness and mercy) allow for healing, but some critics would say that this healing may come at too high a price. Forgiveness, if carried to extremes, can lapse into servility, entailing a loss of self-respect. There are similar paradoxes associated with mercy, particularly in the context of punishment; too strong an emphasis on mercy can lead to a departure from justice. Clearly, though both forgiveness and mercy are obvious virtues, there are difficulties in putting them into practice in the complex situations that make up everyday reality.” What is Creator’s perspective?

Here we would say the difficulties in putting forgiveness and mercy into practice are solely human ones. This is not a problem for the divine, nor beings within the divine realm who understand these concepts and their appropriateness in countless settings. Granted, the human experience is an extreme environment far removed from light being existence, so there are many situations that are unique to human experience where forgiveness and mercy might be called for and, on a human scale. This analysis is quite apt because there are situations where to dispense forgiveness, at an extreme level, in the absence of any self-awareness of wrongdoing by a perpetrator, in a sense, is underserving them in failing to teach them something about the error of their thinking they are entitled to harm others, and are somehow above the law, so to speak. In the same way, failing to create a consequence for wrongdoing, through dispensing mercy, might similarly misinform and, in fact, reinforce the impulses of a wrongdoer by teaching them they can truly get away with misconduct and, in that case, an act of mercy becomes an enabler of wrongdoing, and thus karmically in line with those actions making whoever had an opportunity to teach a lesson share at least some responsibility for the harm brought about. But again, these are human-level difficulties because you are all mired in a plane of existence operating at a low vibration, filled with negativity of all kinds, and many sources of corruption. Once negative beliefs have been instilled in people, they will become darkened and this will taint their thoughts, their feelings, and their actions accordingly. So the dilemma here is not a philosophical one, in needing to have better or more precise definitions for forgiveness and mercy. What is needed is a good solution for being out of divine alignment, because that is where wrongdoing comes from as well as the ability to reckon with wrongdoing.