Forgiveness

In the Lord's prayer the believer asks for God to forgive the believer as the believer forgives. Is this hierarchical? Does this create a ladder of authority where the more forgiving people have less power in the world and more power in the eyes of God? Is there a feminist ethic where there is a consciousness of abundance that grounds an understanding of the universe where as you give you are blessed with increase? Love is like a penny if you give it away you end up having more?

I keep looking at the concept of physics and contrasting it with the concept that God has left creation and removed Godself into a remote place while remaining closer to us than our jugular vein. (Qur'an) This, I think now, does not mean God is located in closer proximity to our aorta. I think it is a reference to a reality of dimensional space where there creation is like a more coarse layer of reality that exists over the heavens like a veil. Within this veil, somehow, several dimensions removed, is God.

From that location, transcending time and three-dimensional space, God can see all things infintely more clearly than we can. In a vast and comprehensive plan for the good and wonderful actualization of creation, God has ordained that we receive mercy by being mercy, that we are cared for by being caring, that we are forgiven to the degree that we forgive, that our absolution from God depends on the degree to which we focus on the perfection of God's wisdom and grace and the limitations of our own and others understanding of life and subsequent limited ability to make perfect choices at all times.

Is that forgiveness that we extend to others a way to increase our closeness to God? Does letting go of anger and resentment somehow make us loosen our grip on the world that we can perceive and move naturally toward whatever reality contains God more fully? Does anger represent an alienation from the realm of God? IS it an emotion that makes us naturally seperate from the heavenly realms and from God? Does forgiveness represent a dimensional state that is higher than anger to the same degree that you cannot sculpt a one-dimensional statue, can we not be as close to God is we feel resentment about anything that we can perceive in this life? Is the act of forgiving a step that we take on faith that moves us closer to God the way gravity pulls on the earth's atmosphere?

Does the economy of forgiveness function in this world? If so, how does it work with racism, sexism, and classism and the work for the transformation of human society?