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Trudy: You... can't be serious...
Akhilesh: As serious as a heart attack.
Trudy: And you expect me to find the answer to all my problems in a 2000-year-old book?

Akhilesh: No, Trudy. I expect you to find the answer to your *greatest* need: *forgiveness*. With all you have done, you may never find it from man, nor may you forgive yourself. But "if we confess our sins," God "is faithful and just and will forgive us."

Trudy: Like God would care about me, with all I've done...
Akhilesh: "He is patient with you, not wanting everyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance."

Trudy: What I've done is too terrible to forgive!
Akhilesh: "As far as East is from West, so far has He removed our transgressions from us."

Trudy: There's nothing I can do to atone for what I've done!
Akhilesh: "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast."

Trudy: You are *beyond* irritating, do you know that?
Akhilesh: Perhaps, but I can keep this up all day if I must...

{{Author's notes below the comic: "Panel Two: 1 John 1:9. See also Ephesians 1:7 and Hebrews 8:12. Panel Three: 2 Peter 3:9. Panel Four: Psalm 103:11-12, although Luke 1:37 would be a more direct (and shorter) response. Panel Five: Ephesians 2:8-9."}}