Should a Christian be sorry for the past behaviour of other Christians?

I don’t believe so, and this is why.

The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ is the good news is that not one of us ever needs to dwell on our the sinful past, never mind the past of others. The grace of God has forgiven us so that we may repent and move forward with Him.

You or I cannot apologize for something we didn’t do. We cannot be sorry for the actions or sins of other “Christians”. We can only be sorry for our own.

In the current peak of a “we” society, this is exactly what the woke mob wants. They want to confine you into a group, point out all the wrongdoings of your group as if their group is perfect, and make you bow to your knees asking for forgiveness because of the victim mindset they suffer from. In the age of the tyrants and false gods, the bigger victim story wins.

As holders of truth, we cannot fall for this trick of the devil. We cannot hold guilt for those who have done evil in the name of God. We can only look at it and learn from it, but not feel shame or sorrow because of it.

The Bible teaches that all humans are equal sinners who fall short of the glory of God. Not one can boast they are better than the other. Not one person or a group. Just as we’re also taught that all sins are equal to God in the way that they all lead to hell. This is so that each one of us can know that we’re just as capable of evil as anyone else given the right conditions. It’s actually the identity grouping of people that allows pride and hate to fester.

It is the Godless person, or religious person who does not know Jesus Christ that demands you confess the sins of those in your group that are worse than theirs. This is why the world looks at Christians as a whole and dismisses us, they look at people as groups. God sees us as unique individuals and that is how God tells us to look at all people. Jews or Gentiles, masters or slaves, sinners or saints, we’re all the same in God’s eyes and have the same opportunity to accept God’s grace and repent for ourselves.

The identity group mindset is an occult trap that forces people into groups and demands confession of guilt for sins you didn’t commit. This is exactly how the Jews were persecuted and murdered, and I feel this is the same mindset that will lead the Western culture into persecuting the Christians as we can see in the narratives being set.

This is also why I do not like the idea of empathy. It forces one to lower themselves as the victim with the people who dwell in their victimhood. Rather, having sympathy allows you to understand one’s pain without lowering yourself down to them, but instead lifting them up out of their pain.

My point in all of this I guess is, we can show love as God commands us to, especially to those who God calls His enemies without apologizing for those who defiled His name. The best way to show our love to others is in our actions, not words…in which I confess I very much fall short in.