Why would you want to have someone else bear the burden of your sins?

Question

One of the major points my family used to drill me with was "Don't you want to be forgiven of your sins?" My response to this was "No, they are mine, and I wouldn't have learned the things I know if I hadn't made the mistakes you call sins."

Answer 1

I wouldn't want anyone else to bear the burden of my own sins. They are caused by my actions and therefore they can only be my own responsibility, to learn from and try to put right.


I can understand why some people would want to pass the responsibility onto another though. They either cannot handle the responsibility because of their own immaturity or are too self-absorbed to want to take the responsibility, in my honest opinion.

Answer 2

My faith tells me that my behaviour can either glorify God or denegrate Him. My behaviour can also have an effect on anothers faith. So while I do not have to bear the burden of anyone else's sins, I am responsible for them in some way. If you are deliberately sinning and don't want to seek forgiveness for those sins, then your families concern is legitimate. You seem to be saying that your behaviour is yours and not hurting anyone else and you are not remorseful at all. Well. there are consequences to our actions. Not just in the realm of God, but with everyone around you. I wonder how much damage you would have to do to realize that this kind of behaviour can harm you and others? As far as learning lessons from those sins, I am not sure you have if you are continuing to do them. But, Learing from our mistakes and deliberately behaving badly is at two different ends of the spectrum. It seems that I am seeing a lot of this attitude of "It's my life and I can do what I want. But, No-one better hold me responsible for anything." I hope and pray this changes everyday.

Answer 3

Apparently you have never done anything terribly wrong, that has become a great burden. That's a good thing. If you ever do, remember there is someone who will forgive you. It sounds like you were being prepared for life, try to forgive them, they meant well.

In the mean time, listen to a song by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. It's called, 'Teach your Children'.

Claiming responsibility for your actions, is as old as a Jewish sense of guilt. Up to a point, it can be very empowering.

Answer 4

Jesus didn't ask the whole of humanity if they wanted Him to die for their sins. He just did it!

He did it even for people like you, who don't appreciate the fact that He did it.

Christ's act of dying for our sins was the ultimate act of selflessness. It's a lesson for all of us, if we're willing to pay attention to it.

You say that you wouldn't have learned what you know, without having "made the mistakes you call sins."

But we don't deliberately commit sins with the idea that it's part of a learning process -- just as you don't deliberately make mistakes at your job so that you can learn your job better.

At your job, you learn from mistakes -- but these mistakes are not made on purpose. They happen by accident. Sins work the same way.

So, your implication that people should deliberately commit sins for the sake of "learning" just doesn't hold water.

Answer 5

Your family was trying to teach you guilt and compassion not that anybody else needs to bear the burden for other's sins. We are all sinners and of course we learn from our mistakes but learning from them is part of being forgiven; realizing that what you have done is wrong.

Answer 6

When Christ took our sins to pay the price for the sake of justice and righteousness in the eyes of God the Father, He didn't remove the earthly consequences of our actions. I can't slug a biker in the face and expect no consequences for my action. I will no doubt receive a hearty helping of earthly consequences.

But Christ took the eternal consequences of my sin. I won't stand before God and answer for why I slugged the biker. The eternal penalty for our selfish, arrogant, angry, violent lives is eternal separation from God (which is actually worse than what the biker would do to me).

So you can still learn from your 'mistakes', and receive eternal forgiveness but still have earthly consequences. Sounds like the sticking point for you is the humility required to ask for forgiveness.

Answer 7

You must bear the burden of your sin here, this means you reap what you sow. In others cultures it is called karma etc. But God came to earth as a man and lived here with us, died for his bold wisdom, love and truth. Being Sinless himself because he was God gave us remittance for our sinfulness and saved us from eternal destruction. If you are written in the Lambs book of life then one day you will fall down and repent for your sin and even though you may live in a culture that has never heard of Christ you will know by nature what you must do. "Repent". Your question is very much like the person crucified with Christ who said he deserved his death because he was guilty. This one Jesus said would be with him in Paradise. It sounds like you have a stronger faith than ten thousand religious guys.

Peace to you and thank you for a great question,
Antipas

Answer 8

Jesus Christ Is the only person that could bear the sins of this lost world because he was the only exceptiable sacrifice that God the Father would except.Jesus was sinless and his blood was pure not like ours.Jesus wants us to cast our burdens on him and he will give us rest peace security.Trust In the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding

Answer 9

Actually a sever pain for let us say 24 hours by someone who lives afterwards in heavn so our sins be removed is really not justifed.

Also, I can see clearly what you are tackling and trail and Error is the ever lasting education techniques.

Yet, did you do these sins to see for yourself how bad is it?
did you ask for forgivness and never made it again?
do you think that you have time to even get the chance to ask for forgiveness..If so, let us know when you die exactly.

Answer 10

There's a difference between forgetting your sins and getting over them and being forgiven of them, and I think you're confusing the two.

Answer 11

people are soooo selfish---they won't even share their sins!

if the Big Guy in heaven says He'll take the burden of my sins, i say, 'right on, Bro!'

why would i encumber myself with excess luggage in the airport of life and risk ruining my healthy skin from the stress of it all? i say the hell with that!

next sunday, come to my bbq after mass. i will be handing out sins by the plateful.

God bless.