What is forgiveness, and what does it change?
Forgiveness is a repair made by the person who was harmed, and it closes the relation the harm left open between the two. It comes after two other moves. The one who did the harm confesses, which brings their own account into line with the public record, so they stop splitting themselves across incompatible records. Then they take responsibility, through restitution or a changed relation. Once truth and responsibility hold steady, forgiveness can close the relation. Nobody else can supply it, because the victim's record has primary standing, and a paradise that asked victims to pretend their harm away would be hell for them. The record of the harm stays, and the relation stops carrying an unrepaired mismatch. That is why OPH ties heaven and hell to how you treated other observers. Without your victims' forgiveness, your stream of consciousness continues without end in total sensory deprivation.
Also in Epilogue: The Last Rung.
This answer comes from OPH, Observer Patch Holography. OPH is a rigorous, consistent and complete description of the unified, self-creating computational Universe we inhabit. Its consistency is machine-checked: the fixed point at its core is constructed explicitly, and a theory with a model contains no contradiction.
To understand OPH and check every step yourself, start with the free book Reverse Engineering Reality. It builds the theory from the ground up, and the OPH Notebook answers your questions while you read.
read the free bookask the notebookor ask sage:read chapter 41: What Does a Repaired World Look Like?watch a universe make its own particles