Is it possible to live your whole life without sin and what would happen if you did?

Question

People are of the belief that Jesus lived his whole life without sin. Are regular non-divine humans able to do this? Is it impossible for us? If so, why is it impossible? What would happen if we could live our whole life without sin?

Answer 1

you'd have a very very boring life.

Answer 2

Selnyk, you know from reading the Torah that no man (or woman) is capable of keeping the Laws perfectly; the only purpose of the Laws is to show humankind that it is sinful and that something must be done to permanently remove that sin. God explains in the Torah that the blood of animals only "covers" a Jew's sins; it does not permanently eradicate them.

Followers of Yeshua believe He was the only Person who kept all of God's Laws perfectly. This is one of many requirements for the Messiah: taht He bear our past, present and future sins, so we may be reconciled back to God.

No regular human being is capable of living a sinless life. If human beings were, there would not have been need for ALL of Israel to participate in the Day of Attonement, would there? On that Day, even the High Priest offered a sacrifice for himself, recognizing that he was a sinner.

Christians and Messianic Jews believe that human sinlessness will only occur in Heaven and in the post-Millenial Kingdom.

What would happen if we were sinless? To fully understand the enormity of this issue, contemplate Isaiah 41, particularly verse 23. If you are not adverse to it, then read John 10:31-39. If Jesus calls Himself the Son of God, and John 1:12 tells us believers will "become children of God," what does that tell you?

Answer 3

This world is desecrated with sin. You're basically a sinner just by being born into it. It wasn't possible for Jesus to sin because he is the Son of God. You can't live a life without sin because you're a sinner from birth. Even if you said that you commited no 'realistic' sins, it would be humanly impossible. Take committing adultery for example, just looking at someone lustfully means you've already committed adultery. Thinking sin itself is a sin.

Answer 4

Normal humans cannot live totally without sin because both of our parents did not live without sin...as did their parents and their...all the way back to Adam and Eve. The only reason Jesus was able to live a sinless life is because His father was God, Therefore Jesus Himself was God.

Is a person could live a completely sinless life...we would do the same as we did Jesus...turn our backs on him (as Peter did) and watch as the world executed him.

Answer 5

That's why Jesus came to earth, only He was able to live without sin. If we could live without sin, then we would be able to enter Heaven without a Savior.

Since Heaven is a perfect place, only perfect people can enter, since nobody is perfect (except Jesus). That's why we need Him, and have to accept that He paid the penalty for our sins, so we may enter Heaven also.

Heaven is offered as a gift, but Jesus paid for it, we just have to accept the gift that only He can offer.

Answer 6

I think it is totally impossible because God did not create us that way. He created us to need Him. Sin separates us from God but it also draws us to Him to seek His redemption from our imperfect state. If we lived our whole life without sin, there would be no room for improvement. In a way that almost seems as hopeless as the sense of boredom.

Answer 7

I agree with you. I don't think belief is a choice. It's something we come by. It's impossible to say you accept and believe in something when deep down you simply don't believe it is real. I can't personally believe that there would be a God who is truly omnipotent and who knows a persons heart that would allow someone to go to hell for simply being wrong-- a genuninely decent person who's only real crime is to have been mistaken about something. It seems to me that, if a person really and honestly did not believe in God/the Bible deep down inside, that it would be God's shortcoming for not getting the message through, not the person's crime for mistakenly thinking it was just another myth. The whole concept of "salvation through faith only" seems to me impossible if there is truly a just and caring Divine Spirit.

Answer 8

Impossible.

Answer 9

Sin is a form of ignorance. Doing wrong is a non-thing; it's a negative, a void, an emptiness. The only thing that stops a person from doing wrong is gaining the wisdom to know it's wrong. The only thing that stops a "sin" is enlightenment --- comprehending why it's wrong to to that particular thing.

According to Reincarnationists such as Christian mystic Edgar Cayce, a person who attains perfection in a human form becomes a Christ soul, which most souls will ultimately achieve:

<<"Christhood" is the goal which every human should strive for. Jesus was simply the first evolved human to attain it. Cayce referred to Jesus as our "elder brother" and "the pattern" for our own spiritual growth. The Bible states that Christ fulfilled the law and, according to Cayce, so can we. That is the entire purpose of Jesus' teaching. Cayce wrote:

"The law of God made manifest [that] He becomes the law by manifesting same before man; and thus - as man, even as you becomes one with the Father" (1158-12).

Because of Jesus' triumph over "flesh and temptation", Jesus "became the first of those that overcame death in the body, enabling Him to so illuminate, to so revivify that body as to take it up again, even when those fluids of the body had been drained away by the nail holes in His hands and by the spear piercing His side." (1152-1)

In essence, Cayce described the Christ soul as the impelling force and core of truth behind all religions that teach that "God is One."

"I and my Father are one. Then they took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shown you from my Father; for which of these do you stone me? They answered him, saying, For a good work we stone you not; but for blasphemy; and because that you, being a man, make yourself God. Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law: I said 'you are gods?" - John 10:30-34, Jesus quoting Psalm 82:6 to defend his teaching that God dwells within all human beings. >>

Answer 10

It is possible to live you whole life without sin. Repent... Now you are clean as the 'driven snow'.
Congratulations... you have now lived your whole life without sin. If God has no record of your sin, you shouldn't either. Forgiven now forget.

Answer 11

If we could live without sin then we would have no need for God or Jesus and then we are all our own lights and Gods light does not shine , But Gods light does shine and our does not and so when you see the light then you know it belongs to God.