In a recent podcast episode entitled, “Biblical Forgiveness Isn’t What You’ve Been Told,” Alisa Childers interviews Teasi Cannon to discuss biblical forgiveness, and promote Teasi’s upcoming book.

The premise of the message is this: “Biblical forgiveness cannot happen without repentance.”  Teasi describes the releasing of another’s debt unilaterally (Mark 11:25) and entrusting justice to God (Romans 12:19), without the offender repenting, as an unbiblical, therapeutic model of forgiveness:

“A psychological technique or process, whereby we remove vengeance, we try to offload negative feelings, for the sake of being free emotionally… This is a psychological process that really looks more like secular self-helpism than anything biblical, at all.”

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