Our lives and interactions are transactions in value, and we are by nature givers (creditors), takers, and offenders (debtors).

In Matthew 6:12, Jesus, while teaching on prayer said; ‘Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.’ Here, Jesus identifies forgiveness as something of value like money. Something that can be exchanged or traded, given or withheld. 

The Lord encourages us to ask the father to forgive our debts - our offenses to Him. Then, indicating debt owed to one another, he uses the same analogy, He says ‘as we forgive our debtors,’ showing that we also should forgive that which is owed to us.

Therefore, IF WE OWE one another forgiveness, that must mean that there exist a spiritual law in which we were ORIGINALLY REQUIRED to extend good