Can a person really redeem themselves?

[pethouse]

Can someone really make up for their past wrongs? Say for instance a teenager that stabbed someone then ended up turning their lives and spent their future doing outrageously good things like feeding the poor. Or a person that slept with many peoples wives/husbands then changed their ways and taught people about sexually abusive behaviors and what to do to avoid that, or someone that was addicted to drugs and beat people up and stole things from strangers then inevitably became sober and joined one of those NA/Aa groups to help others change their ways?

When someone truly changes to become a Better person and doesn’t the majority of their life doing good then bad? even though their bad deeds did a lot of damage and hurt people pretty bad can they still end up being a good person in the end?

Yes

No

[ThePartyGirl93]

Maybe I'm just a very forgiving person and a tad bit over forgiving.. But I do believe everyone does deserve forgiveness so to answer your question, Yes someone can redeem themselves.

I've myself though have been hurt so many times by certain people that I can't be around them without thinking about how they hurt me before even if they showed they regret it. It doesn't take away the pain and such what they caused and can never really do that.

Think of like a fabric patch, It hides the hole in the jeans but doesn't really fix it 100% as the damage will still be there under that patch.

[Nikki1989]

Everyone deserves a second chance in most situations.

[pethouse]

What situations would they not be able to redeem?

[Nikki1989]

The obvious things, murder, rape, child abuse etc.

[slatyb]

Are you seriously comparing maiming with extramarital sex? And why are you blaming the third party? Surely most of the blame should fall on the married person who is lying to their partner, pretending to be faithful when they are not.

A lot of antisocial behavior is a result of trauma. People can recover from that and learn to love themselves and others.

[Adam1978]

Stabbed as in hurting someone, maybe but if it's a killing blow there is no way to redeem that action. But the thing is you usually don't get to redeem yourself, no way they let a stabber work of their debt. So even if you can't undo the wound you could improve their life situation to the better.

[inhua]

forgiving people sounds easy to do on paper but it's much harder when put into practice

and then there's the flip floppers who say "the past doesn't matter, it's in the past" would only pick and choose what matters and what doesn't when it suits them

[Unit1]

No.

Simply no.

Minor offenses are not the same as assault, mutilation, murder ( except in self defense), making someone need hospitalization for no reasonable reason or whatever Putler is doing.

Dare i say, forgiveness doesn't grow on trees.

[call_me_scar]

Yes anyone can if Biden said you know what fuck the big money im to old to care about such things I'm gonna help the people now and flipped the bird to the military industrial complex, legalizing drugs, called out all his shady coworkers extra extra then I'd say he did redeem himself from his greedy bastard self that he currently is

[Peter_Penetrator]

But it must be true redemption. Some claim redemption to feed their narcissistic personalities. To tell their stories for the purpose of manipulating the emotions of others.


Evangelist are superb at doing this.

[BlissfullyCurSed]

Even though every person deserves a second chance, rarely do they redeem themselves. Habits are very hard to change that is why they are called habits.

[OddBeMe]

No. People who forgive really just chose to forget and move on. But most likely their deeds will be done again. Behavior is hard to change. Like cheating. It’s a personality thing. They like to double life or something.

[ChillaxingLove]

Forgiveness and a turning your life around is always possible as long as the person is willing to change

[LiamJHayden]

Make up for? There is just no way to make up for taking someone's parent, sibling, child, etc. Become a better person and keep others from doing the same, yes.

[EssenceOfLight]

Maybe? Most people who regret their past are hypocrites who rather regret the circumstance they have been caught instead of real self-criticism.

[Matt-G]

One thing is certain, people need to be forgiving in order to be forgiven. Like the story of the feast with the 3 foot chopsticks, only those who tried to help each other ate at all.

[CuriousMufuxka]

Rarely, but yes. I am a living example. I came from nothing then made myself into something, then fucked all that up and for the past 2 and half years been on a road of redemption.

[exitseven]

I am a big believer in redemption. It is not easy and it really does not happen very often.

[SigmaNiggeh]

You'd be surprised. People can drastically change/repent. However are they going to stably continue down that road and not look back? it depends? I hope?

[Christoff92]

Yes. Focus all your energy in things that you really want to focus on 😊

[WhitneySnow]

Yes. I believe they can.

[Juxtapose]

Yes, but rarely so.