Forgiving yourself

Over the last week and a half I have heard two preachers on the radio promote the concept of "forgiving yourself." I don't find where the Bible teaches the idea of forgiving yourself. One of them, a popular Baptist radio preacher, started with Psalm 103 -- about God's forgiveness -- as his beginning text. This seems like a modern re-framing of the simple fact of accepting God's forgiveness.

Do you think the Bible teaches you must forgive yourself?

 

That seems to be the gist of it.

 

It is hard to say, since it is usually not defined, just talked about. Your statement brings up a good point. Are they talking about something that is biblical using bad terminology, or are they using bad terminology and talking about something that is unbiblical.

Again, it is hard to say when terminology is not clearly defined. IMO, the Baptist radio preacher was mostly talking about accepting the fact God has forgiven you. I Googled the topic and found one site that had a point called "What is self-forgiveness?" But after I read the paragraph, I still didn't know just how they defined it.

Maybe the common thread is that forgiving yourself is to stop carrying around -- even nursing -- guilt and condemnation for past sins (with which I agree, but don't like the terminology). Some say being positive about yourself rather than negative, which may be something that moves within the arena of Christianity or outside of it.