I was going to qualify the question but I changed my mind.I might after I read some answers.
2006-11-05 03:36:10 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow! good points
2006-11-05 03:46:36 · update #1
Thanks everybody for your answers.I am having a hard time deciding on the best answer but I will not let it go to a vote.
Don H,yours made me laugh because that can be true sometimes.Reminds me of the squirrel song by Ray Stevens.When he says in walked " Bertha better than you".
2006-11-05 06:46:06 · update #2
the only thing we stop doing are things that we are convicted of and only through the power of the spirit that lives in us can we even do that much. We have a new nature and our old ways we begin to loathe but we still have a flesh that wrestles with the spirit, and basically we want to live a better life than before but we will not hit the mark until we are home with Christ. For example i use to be addicted to porn, drugs alcohol and sex. but I have been freed by Christ of these things, but I still have other sinful ways like jealousy, gossip and stuff like that, things i don't even want to do sometimes I still find myself doing. Through the power of Christ in me I will not go back to living an ungodly life style, BUT alone I would slide back into it, and I know that so I stay with Christ and in the mean time he will show me other things that need to change in my life and he will help me to overcome those things too until at last in his presence I will be made complete.
2006-11-05 04:11:24 · answer #1 · answered by candi_k7 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Being baptised a Christian merely removes the stain of Original Sin and grants forgiveness of all sins committed by you up to the baptism.
BUT, as a Christian, whenever you sin and are repentant, forgiveness is yours for the asking. It's up to you to confess, to repent, to make restitution insofar as is possible. But that done, you're once again in a state of grace, ie, able to be close to God, to feel His love and to do His will with His help.
2006-11-05 03:40:46 · answer #2 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wished I didn't So do all real Christians even the Apostle Paul:
Jim
Romans 7: 19-21
For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
2006-11-05 03:51:54 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope. Christians are not perfect, just forgiven. I make mistakes all the time. Does it give me joy? No! I should live a life that is pleasing to Jesus, but I don't. The Apostle Paul said:
Galatians 2:17-21
17"If, while we seek to be justified in Christ, it becomes evident that we ourselves are sinners, does that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! 18If I rebuild what I destroyed, I prove that I am a lawbreaker. 19For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. 20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. 21I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!"
2006-11-05 03:47:16 · answer #4 · answered by padwinlearner 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The KKK are christians.
Dennis Rader (the BTK serial killer) is a christian.
Ted Haggard is a christian.
George Bush is a christian.
Pedophile catholic priests are christians.
The Nazis and Adolf Hitler were christians.
By your definition, they're moral people. Don't lie and claim that they're not christians.
The reality is, religion has nothing to do with morality. Religions and the religious perpetuate the lie to claim superiority and to claim it repeatedly in that hope that, as Hermann Goerhing said, "If you tell a lie often enough, people will begin to believe it."
Faith is how you treat your "god". Morality is how you treat people. The two have nothing to do with each other.
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2006-11-05 03:46:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Obviously someone forgot to mention that to the televangelists....You TRY to stop sinning- or stop doing things that inhibit or hurt others and your spiritual growth. My Mom used to say" if you put a bump in the wheel (of life) it will hit you in the head later on"-so so true!
2006-11-05 03:50:35 · answer #6 · answered by ARTmom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Christians aren't sinless, only Christ was. We are supposed to sin less, it's all part of having the Holy Spirit to guide you.
2006-11-05 03:39:51 · answer #7 · answered by teeney1116 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are supposed to strive to remove sin from their lives, not always successful and it's a life long process.
2006-11-05 03:41:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians sin just as much as non. We strive to sin less but its human nature to do so.
2006-11-05 03:41:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately No, we are not completely washed away from sinning, although we can try not to give in to temptations and etc
2006-11-05 03:39:45 · answer #10 · answered by Breann 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋