If God is all forgiving, can't u ask forgiveness every so often and just do what u want?

Answer 1

Exactly - what a cop out. The only people who can forgive you, are you, or the people you hurt. Anything else is just a cop out.

Creators of Christianity SAID God is all forgiving to make the religion more accessible, and therefore recruit more followers. But they still make out we rely on God to forgive us, thereby he is our only salvation.

Truth is, we are all responsible for our own actions in this world. We can't expect anyone to bail us out. We're all going to make honest mistakes, or dishonest ones we learn from and make better in a different way. That's what makes us grow. Only desperate or selfish people need a big beardy man to whisper their secrets to, and feel like they've repaired all their bad deeds.

Not that I'm saying all religious people fall into this category, as lots of people actually do use religion to help them do good every day, which is lovely.

Answer 2

God forgives when we ask because of Jesus. It works thus:
1. God said 'Do what I've created you for. Do good. Love me and others and all will go well with you.' Go your own way and you'll die for it.
2. thick idiots that we are, we go our own way. we were warned, but the just penalty is death. God gave us life and God can take it away.
3. because God loves us, in the Old Testament, instead of us dying, he allowed an animal to be killed instead of us. Our guilt goes on to the animal. So God is fair. We can't be forgiven just like that, but only through a sacrifice. Forgiveness is not something to be taken lightly. It costs a lot.
4. In the New Testament, Jesus dies on the cross. Instead of an animal dying instead of us, Jesus dies. no more animal sacrifice, because Jesus is the perfect sacrifice.
5. when a christian 'sins' it is like killing Jesus over again. When we ask forgiveness it is coming again to the cross, asking again to be forgiven - acknowledging again that Jesus' sacrifice for us makes it possible for us to start again. and the amazing thing is, there is forgiveness. when a christian is doing the selfish stuff, we feel cut off from God, from other people, from the world.
so forgiveness is not such a cheap thing. a bloke called Bonhoeffer called it 'costly grace'. (Grace being the good things we don't deserve).

It costs us nothing. It costs God everything.
So if we truly believe we want to stay living right, rather than messing up our lives again.

Hope this helps to answer the question.

Answer 3

Forgiveness and repentance are based on a lifestyle from sin.
God is forgiving and He hates sin, but not the sinner. He wants you to have a good quality of life, and sin separates us from God.

We all need rules to live by, and boundaries actually bring freedom. Think about it!

Answer 4

forgiveness is always in regards to the broken law of God that men have offended... Only true penitents desiring forgiveness will be pardoned.. The mark of the unregenerate unbelieving heart is the desire for temporal forgiveness so that he/she can get back to their sin... I'm afraid that this doesn't work with God and His Holy Law...
Regards

Answer 5

"For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality ..." (Jude 4, NIV).

Even in the days of Christ's apostles, clever "false apostles" (2 Corinthians 11:13) began misinterpreting the Scriptures and Jesus' teachings. They misrepresented God's grace—especially in Paul's writings (2 Peter 3:15-16)—as license to ignore God's laws. This particular twisting of the Scriptures, which continues in many religious circles, amounts to permission to sin which is NOT the case.

Answer 6

God is not interested in you being a good person that doesn't do evil. God is interested in you. Period. He wants a relation with you. He wants to guide you through life. He wants you to share your life with him. Christianity quite often compares this with a father-child relation. Father wants to be proud of his child. He wants to raise his child to be a better person. He gives you advise about what's good or bad, but he gives you freedom to follow his guidelines or not. Of course the relation with the father isn't quite as good if the child doesn't talk to the father, and if he always does things that make the father sad. But like in any father-child relationship. If the child is really sorry (being sorry something different than saying that you're sorry!), if the child is really sorry, the father will forgive him.
For instance, if you're male, you probably know that God would like you to look to females as fellow children of God instead of some prime meat to use as you like. Quite often you will look to women in a flesh way, (sorry, don't know how to say that properly in English), instead of a fellow child of God. You know God won't like that. But he also knows, that you'll probably do that for the rest of your life. But still, as a real father, he forgives you if you are sorry you do this over and over again. If you ask God for forgiveness, you probably know that you will ask him again for the same thing tomorrow. It is this miracle of heavenly love that you may be certain that God will love you, as long as you on your own free will want to contact him, and want to see: "sorry Dad, I did hurt you, I don't want to do that, please help me to stop hurting you".

Answer 7

Unfortunatly, people try to take advantage of God in this way all the time, and, in a way, you can. In all actuality, what you do on Earth has no effect on how you come out in the end. Your works do not get you into heaven or sent to hell. But the only way to heaven is through Jesus Christ, through a genuine relationship with Him. In a genuine relationship, forgivness is, in a sense, the reward of repentance. Repentance is the honest regret for something and the willingness to change.

When you enter into a relationship with Christ, you really don't want to 'take advantage' of Him. You want to be close to Him and do what makes Him happy. Cheating on Him isn't what makes Him happy. Christians are always looking to strengthen their relationship with Christ and following the rules that he lays out for us brings us closer to Him. You don't WANT to take advantage of His forgivness in the same way that when you really love and respect your parents, you don't want to lie to them.

This is really hard to explain, but I did my best.

Answer 8

Well, you could - but what if your girlfriend cheated on you regularly, and then expected you to forgive her every time? Reckon you'd soon break up with her because you couldn't take it. God _can_ take it, but why should He have to?

Christianity is about a relationship with God, not about rules and regulations.

Answer 9

if someone (ur child for example) insists on disobeying you all the time and when u have anything to say about it he comes and says he's sorry.. if you forgive him then where's your authority, he doesnt fear or respect u
however if u punish him at times and forgive him at times when you know his intentions or when u know he's weak in front of some temptations then u know that ur child respects and fears u (more fears for u being upset because he loves you)
that's the whole point

Answer 10

No!
Part of asking forgiveness is being willing to change and then changing.