Debts, Debtors
Template:See also Debts refer to obligations to give something back to someone, whether financial (money), or moral.
In "The Gospel as it was revealed to me"
- In the teaching to the Apostles and Jesus' comments on the prayer of the "Our Father": "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors" : There are material debts and spiritual debts. There are also moral debts. It is a material debt, the money or goods that have been lent to you and must be returned. It is a moral debt, the esteem that one demands without reciprocity, and the love one wants but does not give. It is a spiritual debt, the obedience to God, from whom one would demand a lot, even if giving Him little in return, and the love one must have for Him. But He loves us and must be loved as one loves a mother, a wife, a son from whom one demands so many things.
The selfish wants to have and does not give. But the selfish is the opposite of the Heaven. We have debts to everyone. From God to the parent, from the latter to the friend, from the friend to the Neighbor, from the Neighbor to the servant and the slave, because all are beings like us.
Woe to anyone who does not forgive! He will not be forgiven. God cannot, by justice, forgive what man owes to Him Most Holy if man does not forgive his fellow man. (Note: Currently, the Our Father says rather: "Forgive us our offenses, as we forgive those who have offended us").[1] - "And... how many times must we forgive our brothers? How many times if they sin Against the priests, and how many times if they sin Against God? Because if it goes on like now, certainly they will sin Against us since they sin Against You, so many times. Tell me if I must always forgive or a certain number of times. Seven times, or even more, for example?"
"I do not say seven times but seventy times seven times. An unlimited number. For the Father in Heaven will forgive you many times, a great many times, you who should be perfect. And as He behaves with you, you must behave too because you will represent God on earth.[2] - Following this, Jesus gives the Apostles and Disciples the parable of the unforgiving debtor.[3]
In the fundamental Christian texts
In the Bible
Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves others has fulfilled the law completely.[4]