do christians use the blood of christ to justify their sin?

Question

we are all imperfect and must be cleaned by the blood of christ seems to be a way of saying, i am not perfect and it's pointless to try to better myself. is this an unfair statement?

Answer 1

Definitely unfair! I'm not a Christian, but I've noticed that most Christians do work to better themselves. A few slackers may take that attitude, but those people either don't understand Christianity, or they don't deserve to use the label.

Answer 2

No. The blood of Christ never justifies sin. Sin, whether in a Christian or non-Christian has consequences. We are sinners who must come before our Lord and confess and be really sorry for our sins. He forgives us, but there is still punishment for what we have done. If it were a "blank check" why would we even have to ask forgiveness? The punishment can have far reaching consequenses. It may break up our marriage or cause financial hardship or even sickness. God's Holy spirit lets us know in no uncertain terms that we are not right with God. That is when repentance happens.
Justification means that when we stand before a Holy God, He sees the blood of His Son and not our sin. He paid the price for every one that we commit. Therefore we can enter into God's heaven when we die. Those who try to stand before God without that blood having washed him clean will be cast away for eternity.

Answer 3

It's not unfair to question it, but to make the statement would be unfair. But to answer the first part of your question, Christians use the blood of Jesus to walk in perfect faith, fully acknowledging that we are not perfect, yet we're constantly cleansed of the sin we sometimes commit as humans.

Answer 4

I would say it's unfair to the sincere. We are supposed to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. He was a perfect man. Although right now we cannot be completely and wholly perfect, we can still strive to perfection. It's not a justification of/for someone who purposefully sins - although there are those who would make it as such. It's more of an opportunity for any and all.

Answer 5

Yes that is unfair. Some might feel that way because the reality is that if you believe in Christ you believe he died for all of our sin. That does not give us a free pass to sin.

Answer 6

Yes, it is unfair and untrue. As it is written:
"For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify for the cleansing of the flesh,
how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works, TO SERVE THE LIVING GOD?"
(Hebrews 9:13,14)
It is the very blood of Christ that delivers one from a servile bondage and brings men into a willing grateful service to God. out of appreciation for the wonderful benefit of having been freely forgiven for ours sins.

Answer 7

Yes, that is an unfair statement.

Let us for a moment take Christ out of the equation.

Should you, because your not perfect give up? Should you not try to better yourself? Of course the answer to both questions is no. We should always strive to better ourselves regardless of our faith (or lack thereof).

If you choose to stagnate what is the point?

Answer 8

yes some Christians do this without knowing they are slapping Christ in the face, he died for your sins, so then you make a conscious decision to sin anyway its a sick train of thought. Salvations is a long process, and some people don't wantto put the work in.

Answer 9

Are you a good person? What a question, most of us believe that we are good people because we can look around and find someone that is far worse than we are. We can always point to the things that we think make us a good person.

But how good are we really? Dare we take this test and look at ourselves and see if we really are good? Hmmm.

If you are willing try this and see just how good a person you are.

The Good Person Test.

How will you do? Pass or fail?


Have you ever told a lie?
Doesn't matter how big or small, just a lie.
What does that make you? Before answering think about this, if I told you a lie what would you call me? A liar?

Have you ever stolen anything? Cost doesn't matter, a piece of gum, failed to give back an ink pen that you borrowed, anything.
What does that make you?

Jesus said, "You know the saying of old, you shall not commit adultery but I say that if look at someone to lust after them you have committed adultery in your heart.
Have you ever lusted?

Jesus said that hate is equal to murder.
Have you ever hated anyone?

See one day we all are going to stand before a Holy God on Judgment Day and he is going to judge us based on His Holy Law, the Ten Commandments. These are just 4 of them and how did you do? Guilty? I have broken all of these and more, what about you? How well will you do on Judgment Day?

If we break just one point of God's Law we are guilty of breaking all the law and Gods Wrath abides upon us all. Based on God's Law we are all guilty and all are deserving of punishment. But there is an out for us.

Jesus paid the price for each one of us, took on himself God's Wrath so we wouldn't have to face it on our own. Jesus was beaten, battered, bleed and died so we wouldn't have to face God's Wrath. He rose again so that we would life in his presence. Our crimes, His payment.

The real question is where will you stand on Judgment Day. Pay yourself or have it paid for you. Think about it.

Answer 10

no true christians do not justify their sin with the blood of christ but we realize it is because of jesus shed his blood for us that when we repent and accept that he did this we can say we are forgiven of our sin