human being is like God. Every individual is created in God’s image and must seek to understand and imitate his ways. Being made in his likeness, people must love and forgive in the same way, which God shows mercy, those who have done wrong. In another passage from the teachings of Jesus, the temple sacrifice is portrayed. What happens when a person enters the temple to offer a gift and remembers that someone feels ill will against him or her? Jesus stresses total reconciliation. Even if the other