"And forgive us our trespasses,,,,, Verses 6-12”



"And forgive us our trespasses,,,,, Verses 6-12”

Introduction

The Lords' prayer is the one of the most central prayer in the Christianity. It is also commonly referred our Father, and there are other names as well in some other languages. The Christians Bible's New Testament, it makes an appearance in a couple of forms, initially as in Gospel of Mathews, which is part of the Sermon on the Mount, and later in Gospel of Life. It recorded how Jesus was being approached by one of his disciplines, requesting to teach them the way they can pray as John taught his other disciplines (Wiersbe, 2010). The conclusion of prayer with “deliver us from evil” in the Gospel of Mathew, while the conclusion is bit different, and it states as “lead into temptation” in the Luke. While first three petitions are addressing about the God, other four are emphasizing and relating to the needs and concerns of ours. Protestants have other view of this prayer as they end it with a doxology, an addition that seems to have prevailed from rather artistic work of Matthew (García & Riley, 2011).

When we take into account the overall structuring, the way subject flows and the certain points are emphasized, it is treated as rather a guideline on how one should pray rather than something that can be learned from it and it can imitated by rote. Jesus and his other disciplines are praying on many other occasions as New Testament justifies, so the overall application of the prayer amidst the ministry of Jesus is rather anonymous (García & Riley, 2011). There is not much knowledge about it. The way it has integrated into the Christianity is evident from the fact that on Easter Sunday 2007, there was an estimate that approximately two billion Christians who were indulged in the celebration of Easter were reading or reciting this prayer in many languages. Catholics, Protestants, and other sects were part of it. Although there is some difference in the modes of worships and theological differences exist among Christians, these are the words that are taken as the sign of unification of Christians as all over the world, and Christians were reading Lord's Prayers. (García & Riley, 2011)

Analysis

"And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us"

There are many interpretations that have been given to this text, the word debt and debtors have also been used in this verse in some of the versions and translations. Roman Catholics tend to use the word Trespasses in the place of debt. The first English translation that was being done has used the word debt commonly, but the subsequent versions have used the word Trespasses. The prayer with the Trespasses version has been used much commonly in some of the countries. (Willimon, 2010)

Forgiveness was one of the central ideas that were prevailing in the Judaism at this period, and asking for forgiveness from God was one of the main purposes of prayers of ...