If you commit a mortal sin and don't confess it before death will you go to hell forever?

Answer 1

Yes. Remember this is your decision.

A mortal sin is a grave infraction of the law of God that destroys the divine life in the soul of the sinner (sanctifying grace), constituting a complete turning away from God.

For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must be present: grave matter, full knowledge of the evil of the act, and full consent of the will.

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

Wow, thanks to split hairs there. James 5:16 says to admit to someone. John 20:21-22 says that Jesus empowered the Apostles to forgive human beings on the earth and they could be also forgiven in heaven. So at the same time as Catholics decide on to admit to a clergyman, they have the probability to get carry of absolution from their sins from Christ besides. can't get that out of your universal joe, in hardship-free words a clergyman. And none of this negates a million John a million:9, because Catholics believe that after we confess to God (with a clergyman listening in as God's servant), God is straightforward and forgives us and cleanses us.

Answer 3

If your in a state of shame and guilt because you have not confessed then you are already in hell.
Hell is life drying up.If your living win the past then your not living in today then you are withering away. It does not matter if there is a hell in the after life Getting things off out chest helps us stay out of the hell we create in our own minds.

Answer 4

Yes, you must confess to God and be truly sorry for your sins. You don't have to confess with a Priest though. Talk to God on your own and make amends. You can and should do this daily and not wait til you see a Priest.

Answer 5

1)The only unforgivable sin would be to reject Jesus.
2)God isn't concerned with keeping score, rather, God is concerned with your heart.
3)Some Christians question the existence of an eternal torture pit. (No, not just Universalists, there are Christians in almost every "denomination" that question the existence of "hell")

Answer 6

No God stills give you a chance to get it right with him even in hell
God gives you a chance at the Holy Ghost even in hell. Read Philippians 1:20.

Answer 7

In His Word he says If you confess your sins He is faithful an just to forgive you your sins and to cleanse you of all unrighteousness. If one doesn't confess I would assume they weren't forgiven.

In the final analysis, Christ is judge and He says we will all agree the judgments are just and fair. I would be the first to embrace and welcome whomever He deems acceptable for admittance.

Answer 8

God is our only judge. So would it not be better to confess your sins on a daily basis and repent?

Answer 9

What is so special about man that God would send Jesus from his place of royalty in beautiful and wondrous heaven down to earth to become a lowly man and suffer persecution, pain, shame, and death as a criminal to pay the price of forgiveness for man's sin? We find the answer to that question in John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

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Is forgiveness of sins free?

Forgiveness of sins is absolutely free to all people. Isaiah 55:7 says, "Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God, for he will freely pardon." The Bible says repeatedly that salvation and the forgiveness of our sins is a gift that has been given to us from God.

In Ephesians 2:8-9 the Bible says, "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." There is no effort that man can make to earn forgiveness and no amount of money that he can pay for it either. It is a gift given freely by God.

Acts 8:20 demonstrates the conflict we have, "Peter answered: 'May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!'" Man struggles to accept that the gift of forgiveness is truly free. In this world, our concept has become "we give to receive" or "you only get what you pay for."

Romans 4:4 says, "Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation." When we come to recognize that we have sinned, we also realize that a penalty has to be paid for that sin. Romans 6:23 says, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." 1 John 1:9 says, "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." All we really have to do is admit that we have sinned and then claim our free gift.

If God's forgiveness is free - well, somebody has got to pay! Romans 3:22-24 says, "This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."

Hebrews 9:27-28 reiterates this statement: "Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him."

Answer 10

I don't believe that you will! I believe in a purgatory, where souls go to do penance before entering heaven! We are all creations of God and we eventually go back to him if we want to!