The Alisa Childers Podcast #365 Biblical Forgiveness Isn’t What You’ve Been Told | Teasi Cannon
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Mar 26, 2026 Teasi Cannon, apologist and writer focused on pastoral care and biblical comfort, explores how forgiveness in Scripture differs from modern therapeutic ideas. She contrasts feelings-based forgiveness with a repentance-centered pattern. Short, clear takes cover reconciliation after abuse, Matthew 18, and practical language for offering forgiveness when repentance occurs.
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Therapeutic Forgiveness Versus Biblical Model
- The therapeutic model treats forgiveness as an emotional release done solo to free the injured party.
- Teasi Cannon traces this feelings-centered view to 20th-century self-help influence, not to biblical teaching on relational restoration.
Why Feelings Make Forgiveness Fragile
- Therapeutic forgiveness is measured by fluctuating feelings and can be done without offender involvement.
- That makes it unreliable and burdens victims to police their emotions as proof of obedience.
Forgiveness As A Relational Promise
- Biblical forgiveness mirrors God's pattern: it is a relational promise to remove moral liability and enable reconciliation.
- It requires repentance, is transactional between people, and is aimed at restoring relationship, not self-healing.
