Have you ever wondered why human beings have a psychological need for retribution. You hurt me, so I want you hurt. I want you to feel the pain you caused me. I feel destroyed, so I want to destroy you. We have a psychological need for the scales to be balanced, even if they never can be.When that balancing doesn't take place, we cling, form an attachment to the desire for it.
God the Father doesn't experience loss the way we do. Nothing can actually hurt Him, because He is attached to nothing. He loves all equally, wants the best for all equally, and feels what His entire creation feels equally. But He clings to no particular form of a thing. As time moves through Him, created beings come and go through Him. All animal life rises, lives its lifespan, and then returns to the earth to nourish new plant life, which then nourishes new animal life. Human beings come, live their lives, and pass, their souls returning to Him for safekeeping, one way or the other, to be resurrected at some point. Stone becomes dust and then cakes together to become stone again. Matter and energy convert from one form to another. Nothing is ever truly "lost," but everything experiences growth and transformation as time moves along its directional vector. Every moment of our lives, of time itself is a snapshot, a frame in a constantly moving reel of video which He experiences all at once. And He loves, He cares for each and every moment, each and every transformation, allowing it to flow from one to the next without needing it to remain the same. He alone is unmoving and static.
Human beings want things around them to remain the same. They want to feel the security of possessions, health, stability, and so on. They want the familiar because it pleases them, because the mind wants the illusion of things remaining unchanging so it can process events and information easily. Change causes distress to the human mind, and the animal mind in general. But for the malfunctioning human mind, the distress caused by change can be traumatic. In a created temporal existence where change and transformation is constant, this presents a conflict which the malfunctioning human mind tries desperately to protect itself against. Change becomes a threat which must be dealt with.
God is able to forgive easily, because He holds on to nothing and understands the nature of change and transformation through time. Human beings cannot forgive easily because they hold on to everything, and change is traumatic to them. God is able to let go and see who the person is in this moment of time as opposed to who they were, whereas human beings always hold on to who a person was instead of who they are right now. What we fail to see is that the person who offended us no longer exists, because they are transformed into the person who they are now in this moment. God sees this. Thus the righteous person who intentionally causes harm is judged, and the harmful person who turns from their harm to do what is right is forgiven, because the people that they were no longer exist. It is criminal to judge a person for someone else's wrongdoing. Consequences still follow either right or wrong actions and will affect the person they have become, but who a person is now is not the person they were.
