[353FMG]

>We are to love our neighbors and forgive trespasses against us.<

.
Even if they do not repent after seventy times seven times?

[GBA]

Good question, but yes, since we are forgiven as we forgive and judged as we judge.

For me, the "love your neighbors" command is probably the hardest to do and live up to. Some neighbors are just easier to love than others.

Then again, some of my neighbors in life have probably felt the same about me.

But, from what I've read so far, it's not the neighbor's repenting one has to be concerned with. My guess is it's more like an opportunity.

In this example, I'd like to think there's a better way to come to a mutual understanding and teach the neighbor to respect his property than to give into the anger and shoot the 12 lb puppy, however justified it might feel in the moment.