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will, this is interesting. I think I see two separate issues here, forgiveness and trust, and I believe that their are mutually exclusive.
Forgiveness is, as JinnKai put it so well, an internal decision not to allow an individual's past sins bother you. I'm clearly no expert on Christianity, but it seems to me that Christian forgiveness exists entirely as hindsight.
Trust is something completely different. You may have forgiven the sinner but that doesn't mean that you have to trust them not to commit the sin again. The anecdote with your father I think highlights this difference very nicely in that you don't have to trust him not to leave you stranded again, but you can forgive him for the one offense. You are a prudent person, so you are ready to find yourself having to arrange your own transportation if he decides to teach you another leason.
I have more to this, but I can't seem to get it to flow at the moment...
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