If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent us an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior. This forgiveness in which we say we believe is not limited to God, though.
Forgiveness is part and parcel of human life.
In fact, in the Lord's Prayer, we affirm the necessity of a forgiving spirit to even begin to experience the forgiveness of God. Throughout our study of the Creed, we have been insisting that as we believe, so we behave. Nowhere is that any more evident than in this issue of forgiveness. Last winter, after the impeachment trial of President Clinton was finally over, the President spoke briefly on the White House lawn. There was no gloating at the fact that neither of the two articles had come close to passing, just the suggestion that it was time for him, for the congress, for the country, to move on.