Everyone has heard that "Jesus died for our sins!" and everyone knows that we have been born sinners! The Lord Jesus Christ died for all sin! Past, Present and Future Sins.
Then what is the point of trying to keep yourself "sinless" or making yourself sinless! When you are still sinners after you have been saved! Your soul has been saved but the body you are in still has the "Old Sin" Nature!
I think people are way too emotional and think they have to do something for their salvation!
If the bible tells you that you are saved and it's a free gift from God. What makes you think that God takes back his gifts! It would be like me giving you a million dollars and asking for it back two weeks from now!
Oh for all you atheists out there, please answer with something more original that "There is no God!" or "I don't believe in Fairy Tales!"
2006-07-29 18:54:48 · 6 answers · asked by Marky-Mark! 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There's no problem with trying to be less sinful, however do you believe that it's going to take you to Hell? If so that's not the true salvation God is trying to make you understand.
2006-07-29 19:01:44 · update #1
Now inequality in Heaven is a different story!
Just think of Salvation as awarding 10 people in a room 1 million dollars as a prize. Then checking up on them a year later to see what they did with it. In the end they are all at unequal amounts of money, but the fact that they were all winners still remains!
2006-07-29 19:06:11 · update #2
But to follow your logic, Christians need not worry about continuing sinning once they are saved. It's not a question of your salvation, but of your sanctification.
Even Paul wrote "Should we go on sinning so that Grace may abound? May it never be!" We should strive to live pure lives once we are saved because we are told to do so; we are told to grow in our faith as we go about the process of being sanctified, knowing we will only be perfected once we leave this mortal coil.
2006-07-29 19:04:14 · answer #1 · answered by You'll Never Outfox the Fox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hooray, you caught them off at the pass! I'm agnostic, so I'm not going to say that, but I can't just accept any of what you said either.
I think the idea is that, if you say "Oh we go to heaven no matter what we do" a hell of a lot of the purpose of religion goes out the window: there's no clear moral structure. Now, you don't need religion in order to have morality, but it helps. Moreover, even if people don't need to be sinless in order to be saved, we can still accept certain things as being "Bad" and worth avoiding. It's just that if we don't avoid them, we don't suffer eternal punishment; it means there's not the same incentive to avoid them, but our values wouldn't change.
There are some different interpretations on that though. Like, the old sin was gone, as in "Anything you woulda gotten in trouble for for doing before is totally gone: the old laws are bunk. Now we have new ones! Hope you enjoy them!" But then again, that's not necessarily the case either...
2006-07-30 02:02:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one is sinless, but we shouldn't think that we will be given a free ticket into heaven based upon a belief that absolves us of responsibility. I believe that God helps those who help themselves. If you try to be as sinless as possible (by being the best person you can be and for sincerely repenting to God for the sins that you have committed) He will see your efforts, your worthiness, your strength and your desire for Him to be proud of you. What better than to have the greatest of goodness and love be proud of you. Your efforts will make this world a better place. This is what a truly God loving person wants.
2006-07-30 02:09:59 · answer #3 · answered by Happy! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't proclaim Christianity or any religion for that matter, I am spiritual though. I do agree with your concept. Our so called "sins" are learning experiences. people have to realize that. Jesus and God, and all of Gods other messengers wanted us to learn right from wrong it is man who put the fear in the "sinning" aspect. If you think about it, if you never learned from your mistakes then you would be completely ignorant making the same mistakes over and over and over and over......................... that would be absolute hell. LOL
2006-07-30 02:06:00 · answer #4 · answered by loreerocks 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
even if you can never become totally sinless, it is still worthwhile to work on your sins and aim to become better and better. You will become better and rid yourself of some of your sins if you try. But if you don't try, then you will not be better. You and others around you will suffer more because you didn't try. It's that simple in my opinion.
2006-07-30 01:59:44 · answer #5 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it goes against reason and reality.
2006-07-30 01:57:20 · answer #6 · answered by upallnite 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋