2006-09-06 07:55:26 · 32 answers · asked by Frank M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, which is why we're supposed to ask for forgiveness.
2006-09-06 07:57:10 · answer #1 · answered by Raymond 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No. Try writing a paper with a pencil and see if you don't need the eraser. We should strive to be perfect so we can be examples of Christ, but in this fallen and sinful world it is not possible. Sin entered the world when Adam and Eve disobeyed God. Jesus is the only one who ever has or ever will live a perfect life. But God grants forgiveness and grace to those who ask.
Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet was without sin.
1 John 1:8-10 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word has no place in our lives.
2006-09-06 08:10:57 · answer #2 · answered by cnm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is possible to do anything else.
The first thing that someone should be considering is whether the idea of sin is actually real.
If God is supposed to be perfect how could She have made anything or anyone that wasn't perfect.
Think about it. The idea of sin assumes certain things about God that seem highly unlikely.
First it assumes a God who is too incompetent to organize a simple educational field excursion and figure out a way to get all of the students home safely.
How likely is this that God would not be smart enough to come up with a plan for our salvation that is going to work?
It also assumes that God must have created us imperfect if we are sinners.
One might assume that God would be able to create someone perfect each and every time if he chose to. Assuming God is capable of this, then it follows logically that we must be perfect creations if we are actually creations of this perfect God.
Unless of course you are saying that God chose to create us imperfect.
If God created us imperfect then anything that may go wrong is Gods fault, not ours. This seems a bit illogical at best so I think that we need to assume that What God creates would have to be perfect.
If this is the case and Gods creations are perfect, then nothing that we can do could change what God created perfect and make it imperfect unless we think that we are more powerful than God is.
How likely is it that we the creation could be more powerful than the creator. I personally find this idea somewhat amusing, and a bit absurd.
Religion tells us that God is perfect. If this is true then it could hardly be logically for Gods creations to be considered to be anything less than perfect.
If this is the case then Nothing that we can ever do could possibly change this perfection that God willed, unless we were so powerful that our choices could override and change the will of God.
How likely is that????
Think about it.
The idea of sin is simple nonsense; a lie made up about God by religion.
Love and blessings
don
Source --- Course in miracles
2006-09-06 11:52:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one can live a sin free life, but we can still try to follow Christ as much as we can, only he was perfect we are not perfect, and have to ask for forgiveness, and repent for our sins, and it's through the grace of God, and by faith we get forgiveness.
2006-09-06 08:18:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can't say for sure, but I think it seems pretty impossible unless you live all alone in some remote part of the world. Because of Jesus, I am filled with hope. Even though I have sinned, I can go to the Father in prayer (because of what Jesus did for us) and ask and be forgiven!
2006-09-06 08:05:22 · answer #5 · answered by ♥tessa♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it isnt possible but who would really want to?? God knows that we are human (he made us) and that we all have failings - to not sin is not to be human. As another post correctly pointed out JESUS SINNED!!
If your in a bible cult - and I refer to all non conformist, make your own religion up, happy clappy, wave hands and pretend to speak on tongues lot - then you may use the bible as definative set of rules but in truth it is guidance not a rule book. Jesus told us that the most important commandment is to love one another and god and this supercedes all else.
Care for others, be compassionate and understanding and people will know that you are a child of god by what you do, not what you say or what you read - so no telling people they are going to hell or they wont be saved - its their choice and respect it!!
2006-09-06 08:15:28 · answer #6 · answered by Josef H 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is not even a chance that given our humanity that we can live a sin free life, but that does not mean that we should not try. God wants us only to try and get close.
Jesus was perfect, we are not
Min. Will
2006-09-06 08:11:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is easy.
NO! That was the point of Jesus dying for our sins and that's why he is the only way to heaven. We can't get in there by ourselves because he was the only perfect one and we are not!
You don't know any of this do you?
2006-09-06 08:03:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No!....all have sinned and come short of the Glory of GOD!.......even if it's a little thing!......the difference between the ones who receive GOD and the ones who don't is: those who receives GOD have a different view and live unto GOD as best they can, where those who don't receive GOD live unto themselves & the worldly things that are an abomination to GOD...having "No Sanctified Heart".......
2006-09-06 08:02:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
As long as we have a sin nature, we will fall from time to time. That does not give us an excuse to sin, but just reality.
1Jo 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous that He may forgive us the sins, and may cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jo 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His Word is not in us.
2006-09-06 07:58:37 · answer #10 · answered by BrotherMichael 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. That concept goes against everythinig that we believe as Christians. The scriptures expressly tell us that we can't. If we could, there would have been no need for Jesus, and there would be no Christianity. We'd all be perfect sinless Jews.
2006-09-06 07:59:00 · answer #11 · answered by lizardmama 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋