'I'm not angry with God': 5 highlights from Erika Kirk's Fox News interview
5. Kirk explains the decision to forgive her husband's killer
Kirk spoke about her decision to forgive her husband's killer, Tyler Robinson. "A lot of people in this world think that forgiveness is a weakness or that when you forgive, you forget and it's the exact opposite," she explained.
"The enemy stole my husband, and if I didn't forgive, it's more so for me than this man, because the enemy would have my heart. And I knew that every day, the Lord forgives me for things," she contended. "It's not easy. It never is easy, but it's freeing, it's so freeing."
Kirk characterized forgiveness as "a way for me to be able to say 'You'll never get me, You'll never get me.'"
When Watters inquired as to whether her husband would have forgiven his killer, Kirk responded, "He's in Heaven and he sees everything full picture."
She stressed, "If the Lord gave him an option to return back to Earth and if the Lord said, 'This is what your death is going to be the catalyst for, do you want to go back and exchange it,' he'd say 'No.'"
In response to a question about whether Robinson should get the death penalty, Kirk proclaimed, "I do not want this man's blood on my ledger when I stand before the Lord." She indicated that she wanted "the government to decide" Robinson's fate, adding, "It's biblical too."
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
