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Protecting the flock would be letting them know how we were enacting specific plans to prevent what you’re talking about, and at the same time shepherding the whole flock, not just the ones you find acceptable .

You don’t get to decide that for a given local church.

Your question makes no sense. I assume you’re asking if the risk of not having a bulletproof plan that absolutely 100% guarantees that a recurrence never occurs is worth trying to follow Biblical principles for forgiveness and corporate worship. In that scenario of failure the person would be...

I never knowingly have had this scenario in nearly 30 years that I am aware of. You can’t guarantee ANYTHING because you’re not omnipotent or sovereign.

Don’t troll, or you’ll go ignore. You’ve been warned.

Never said that. You’re either dishonest or slow on the uptake. Again, you’re making stuff up (that’s the sanitized version). Now you’re either lying, confused, or both. You struggle with the Biblical concept of forgiveness, and as I said earlier, are in good company. Again, since you dodged...

I’ve already addressed the “risk” via the linked article and policies that would guarantee that while they are in the assembly they would never be allowed to be alone with a child, and they would never NOT have staff assigned to keep an eye on them. Thankfully you’re not in charge of that...

What if he becomes a holocaust denier and starts secretly killing Jews? This “what if” game is fun.

Forgiveness isn’t just applicable to YOUR list of approved sin(s).

Is molestation the unforgivable sin?

It was a general statement about how Christians (sometimes myself included) only give lip-service to believing and applying the Bible, especially the parts that make us uncomfortable.

You don’t like the Bible and its difficult implications. It’s okay, you’re in plentiful company. I’ve witnessed the reluctance to rely upon the word by scores of (Christian) people over the years. Should a person who has been molested be open to forgiveness for their offenders?

“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6‬:‭14‬-‭15‬ ‭KJV‬‬ https://bible.com/bible/1/mat.6.14-15.KJV

The question was (can a molester be) forgiven by you?

You didn’t answer the question.

Can a molester be forgiven by God? How about forgiven by you?

If that’s what’s intended/meant then I completely agree.

That would be your prerogative, but the safeguards in the article linked covered the notion of making congregants aware. People choose not to come to churches for a whole host of reasons, some more Biblically warranted than others. You seem more interested in vengeance than any Biblical solution.

“And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken...

But doesn’t the notion of rebuking those who persist in sin denote that there’s credible knowledge of that sin? And wouldn’t that context be within the authority and structure of the church?