Christians - Do you REALLY TRUTHFULLY KNOW that you deserve to die for the sins you have committed?

Question

Untill 7 years ago I knew this was the case and knew I was very greatful for Jesus dieing in my place. However it also really messed with my head - from a very young age I thoroughly believed I was worthless with no redeeming feature other than God loved me and Jesus had been willing to die for me.
As you can imagine that wasnt quite healthy.
However it was what was drummed into me - how has everyone else responded to this type of teaching - no graphic horrifying stories please i have left my details out. I just want to know how much you believe it, how you interpret it and how you live with it?
I will just clarify that my 'sins' were things like feeling angry at the dog, shouting at my mother or 'taking the lords name in vain'.

Answer 1

Somehow, you aren't seeing things right. If God loves you, how could you possibly be worthless? The sins described in your final sentence seem entirely forgivable to me. Good grief, honey, you are human. How could you possibly expect to never be short-tempered with the dog, or briefly angry with your mother? Sorry I can't answer your question, but please understand this: You already sound like somebody who SHOULD be forgiven. Your so-called sins are really nothing more than human nature. Even taking the Lord's name in vain is really nothing worse than a possible bad attitude. If you are doomed for these sins, then I am in deep, deep doo-doo myself.
A better question is this: Do we really have to share heaven with a serial killer who confesses on his death bed? I don't WANT a man like that in Heaven with me. Do you? Your own sins seem pretty mild. I'd like God to completely forgive you, and I'd like to have you as a next-door-neighbor in Heaven. Nowthen...as for that serial killer...I don't understand why ANYONE (even God Himself) would ever consider forgiving him. His sins are just too awful and they caused too much hurt on earth.
I cannot comprehend my Christian friends who insist that I must forgive that type of man. Everything in my nature says don't do it. I hope this answer helped to "unmess" your head

Answer 2

This doesn't make sense. You contradict yourself. You felt worthless with no redeeming feature, yet God loved you so much that Jesus was willing to die for you. If you were not worthy of being redeemed then why would He die for you? Wouldn't that make Him a lunatic? If you weren't loved then why did Jesus take your place on the cross? It seems to me that if God didn't find worth in you and believed that you deserved redemption then He wouldn't have gone through the great lengths that He did for you.

I don't know, just something about someone dying for me makes me think there must be a reason why they want me to live, even if I felt I didn't deserve it. Kind of humbling if you ask me, which is maybe the reason for it.

Answer 3

What?! Christians do not SIN. i'm SO indignant that you would even imagine that Christians are able to such sacrilige (sp?) hehe. purely kidding for sure. what's so unhappy is a few Christians do position themselves interior the 'perfection' classification. Christians at the prompt are not sinless, they're only forgiven. definite, because of Christ's lack of life as a sacrifice. He took the punishment. Many ask your self if He actual went to hell at the same time as he died on the bypass. we are forgiven. yet purely because Jesus become sacrificed does no longer propose we ought to continually keep sinning, even with the very shown actuality that all of us do. some more suitable than others. it really is why we've were given to assist and inspire one yet another to ward off temptations that lead finally to damaged marriages, lack of life, loss...and so on.

Answer 4

I was raised as a practising Catholic in a strict religious family and went to a Convent school. I find this religion can be at times extremely rigid and can encourage self depreciation, depending on how it is interpreted.

I rebelled against it and left home when I hit 15.

Now, although I am not as extreme as my family are, I do believe in the basic principles. I just hated the fact that I had no choice to make up my mind in regards to religion instead it was forced upon me - there was no one to answer my questions about it as I had to assume an unrelenting faith, which didn't bode well with me.

Answer 5

Deserving to die..
I dont personally know it, but I accept in on faith at the moment...
However, when I did trust in Jesus I did have a sense of sins
forgiven that was very marked, and received the gift of the Holy Spirit, which validates the reality of the gospel message to the believer.
Also before conversion, when I tried to approach God 1 to 1,
on occasions when I felt sad, there was like a hideous dark cloud
preventing access - this went after I had believed.

worthlessness..
When we believe on Jesus as Lord and Saviour and confess
it publicly we actually get our spirits recreated
on the inside. But since its inside we have to take it on faith.
We still can be very sinful, sadly, because our souls need to be trained to be like our spirits, but in our spirits we are actually eminently worthy of love because of being recreated in the image of Jesus. In some churches they keep on preaching to believers
that they are unworthy sinners; I think this is incorrect theology.

Answer 6

My parents wasnt much of church goers. We went some but that was it. We wasnt worthless or low just because we was born into sin. Thats why God sent his Son. God wants us all to be saved and go to heaven to be with him and Jesus. I am out of church right now because of my sins. But I know God still loves me and I am still saved. I just need to get back into Fellowship with him and Jesus. Just because you sin doesnt mean God stops loving you. I am sure you have read about Peter denying Christ but Christ never stopped loving him. Thomas doubted it was Jesus. There is many people in the bible we can learn from and it shows us we are not perfect, not yet.

Answer 7

Yes! But the heavy burden was lifted when I accepted Jesus as my Savior. I am not nearly the discouraged perfectionist (still struggle at times) because I am more mature and realize that I cannot in myself be the perfect sinless person I want to be but through Christ and His spirit, if I learn to trust and lean on Him more every day, my weaknesses are made stronger. I see it as a daily battle the same way Paul did that must be fought against the flesh and if we can do all we can to endure until the end, we will be saved and the battle against the flesh will be over and we will have a new body. So, it is a motivating factor to me to remind me to keep pressing toward the mark and striving to enter in, to endure hardness as a good soldier and to let the Father mold me and make me into a vessel of honour along the way, fit for His use.
Those sins you listed are some of the same root sins Lucifer was cast out of heaven for; pride, anger, disrespecting God and parental authority (rebellion). I think it is only out of balance in the mind of a child who doesn't recieve affirmation for doing good deeds and saying kind things to others possibly. It's merely a childish thing to see things from a bent or out of proportion view. I use to religiously avoid sidewalk cracks as well so as not to break my mother's back but outgrew that because there was nothing to it of course. So, when I became a woman I put away childish things and I see the heavenly Father in a completely different light now and am thankful I had the parents, albeit imperfect, they were Christian parents who wanted the best for me in every way, and I was well provided for. I was born to the family in the time that God planned for me and how I respond to that is up to me. I hope you have learned to let the bitterness go and see things in a more balanced light to where you realize that you were loved so much that the God of heaven sent Jesus to die for you and that Jesus wants your soul set free from sin and your diseases healed so much and understands your pain so well because He WILLINGLY suffered and died for you. That is quite healthy! One must always have the whole picture on not focus on one portion of it until they lose sight of the real message.

Answer 8

I consider myself a Christian, yet I tend to not bother with some teachings (or prefer to use my brain and interfere with some common sense). Basically I just live my life the best that I can and don't worry about the rest. I don't proclaim my religion around others and I respect all other religions. I don't like to gossip or talk about people, and in any situation I always treat people the way I would want to be treated. I practice integrity, although from time to time I do bring home a ream of paper from my job for my printer at home. Hopefully I won't burn in hell for that.

Answer 9

I, for one, am glad that there is at least one person out there who cares for me, even if it is God. I grew up verbally abused. I lived my whole life being told, "Why can't you be like so-and-so's kid? That kid is perfect." I had - and still have - a horrible self image. I was messed up, suicidal and an avid cutter before I found God. To know that someone loves me, despite all of my sins and problems really helped me.

Jesus died for my sins. I'm human and will die someday myself. When I do, I"ll answer for my sins, but I will do so gladly. I"m not going to throw away the love of someone because I can't see them now. I will see them someday, and I know God loves me now.

Answer 10

Knowing that Jesus died on the cross for our sins should not fill us with feelings of worthlessness but quite the opposite. It was because He loved us so much that God sent His only Son to die the death that we deserved.

Joh 3:16-17
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (KJV)