Jesus paid the Price for our Sins by dying on the Cross. So why do we still have to ask for Forgiveness for our Sins? Shouldn't we just need to Love and Thank Jesus for what he did for us?
2006-09-29 02:59:04 · 17 answers · asked by mr_nice_guy 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is important for a few reasons...
First point though, we don't HAVE to ask for forgiveness for our sins because at the moment we accepted Christ into our lives, He paid for our past, present, and future sin.
However...
We are encouraged many times in the Bible to ask for forgiveness in order to:
1. Realize our sin. To confess literally means to agree. When you confess your sins, you are agreeing with God that you were wrong.
2. Create an opportunity to make a commitment to God to do right.
3. Ask God for the strength to resist temptation to sin next time.
4. To glorify God. When we ask specifically for forgiveness, it makes us realize how much we need His forgiveness. We are humbled, and it pleases God. Just as God told Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." (2 Corinthians 12:9)
Hope this helps.
Much love!
2006-09-29 03:10:45 · answer #1 · answered by Samantha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sin is still counted as breaking God's law. But by obeying the law alone we are not saved only Jesus' blood can save us but we will follow God's law if we are truly saved.
Now we are brought to the question which has created confusion for multitudes of Christians: If the works of the law cannot save a person, is it therefore necessary to keep the law? Apparently this was a burning issue in the early church, because Paul asked the same question in Romans 6:1. "Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?" In other words, does grace give us a license to disobey the law of God? His answer is: "God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?" Verse 2.
How interesting it is that Christians in this age of relativism can invent their own definitions which condone lawbreaking. The Bible says sin is violating the Ten Commandments - the law which has been described as irrelevant and old-fashioned by many modern theologians. Don't be deceived. Every one of those great moral precepts is just as timely and needful today as they were when God wrote them on the imperishable tables of stone. And nothing has ever happened to make them less binding than they were when God gave them. In fact, we are going to discover that Jesus came to magnify the law and to open up its spiritual application, making it more comprehensive than the legalistic Pharisees ever imagined. Under the distilling influence of Christ's perfect life of obedience, we can see the spiritual details of law-keeping which are neither recognized nor made possible apart from Him.
2006-09-29 03:04:43 · answer #2 · answered by Damian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus didn't pay for all our sins on the cross.
If that were truly the case, people wouldn't still have to die, and nobody could be sent to hell.
Jesus simply made repentance for sin practical again, by releasing us from bondage to Satan.
Not only is contrition necessary, but so is a firm intention and a real possibility of amendment.
Without both, sins cannot be forgiven.
2006-09-29 03:10:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
When we got save the slate was wiped clean, but we can sin again, so we ask for forgiveness when that happens. If all sin was automatically forgiven, there would be no sin and everyone woul;d go to heaven. That is not scriptural.
2006-09-29 04:17:51 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's still very cleansing for the soul to confess your sins and express remorse. We still need to supress our desire to sin even though we are Christians because if we just say "ok well Jesus died for my sins and I accept that, but I'm not going to change my sinful ways," that does not honor God.
2006-09-29 03:18:19 · answer #5 · answered by GLSigma3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No matter what direction you go in that religion, the object is to keep the blame on you.
You are right...if praying is necessary, after your Testator died...then the death was not necessary.
Those that will say "It's because you sin every day"...makes no sense either, as your daily (and future) sins happened after his death.
2006-09-29 03:05:22 · answer #6 · answered by I I 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It comes right down to admitting your mistakes. When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, God said, 'What have you done?'
It isn't that He wasn't aware, or even prepared to forgive them, but He needed THEM to admit and own up to their mistakes. They did not.
That is why we need to go to God and say "This is what I did, please forgive me."
It is more for US than for HIM.
Vicki
2006-09-29 03:13:02 · answer #7 · answered by Miss Vicki 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Asking forgiveness and repenting is how we truly accept the gift of His suffering, because that's what allows his suffering to change us and make us better.
best wishes
2006-09-29 03:21:06 · answer #8 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes he did.
But don't we sin every day so you have to ask for forgiveness and remember what he did for you.in all the time.
2006-09-29 03:20:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your theory sounds great except, you forgot one BIG thing.....Free-will.....Forgiveness is available to those who willingly ask for it.....And you have free-will to not ask for it....Choices, Paths, and Decisions that affect the total outcome of the story.
2006-09-29 03:11:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋