sin an hell?

Question

if you go out an you comite a sin, you go to church on sunday an you are considerd saved an your going to heven because god forgives all sins. right? well then how can anyone tell someone that they are going to hell because they have comited a sin? no matter what the sin is god forgives all sins. i am haveing a hard time understanding this because if this is true there is no one in hell right?

Answer 1

God forgives all sins except the one sin that denies Him. This sin ascribes to God what Satan has done, in that a person blasphemes the Spirit God that has been sent to call a person to righteousness. By saying with full knowledge "I do not believe", a person has in effect participated in the very first lie told in Eden.

Using an argument of "fairness" ignores the perfect attributes of God and lacks an understanding of the philosophical arguments of perfection.

In order to understand why just being "good" is insufficient; you would need to understand the concept of a perfectly holy and righteous being. Such a being would hate ALL sin and would be bound by the being's perfectly just nature to render judgment for the unjust. Just as we expect justice in this world, albeit imperfect at times, so does this being, God. Fortunately, a perfect being like God will render perfect justice, too.

While it is hard to hear, there are none righteous in the perfect God's eyes.

So how is a perfect God's demand for justice for sin reconciled with our own imperfections? Here we find that God came up with a perfect solution. He became flesh, lived a perfect life, and acted as our representatives in God the Father's court of justice. There He was judged and crucified, carrying all the past and future world's sins with his crucifixion. God the Son, Christ, became our sin bearer and we need only acknowledge that sacrifice to be made "justified" in God's eyes and in God's demand for justice for sin.

Think of it this way. Your son does something like breaking a neighbor's window. Yet your son is too young to be made to pay for his crime. Society demands that the parent then act in the son's role and pay for these crimes. Likewise, God the Father allows God the Son to be humankind's representative. Christ paid the price for us all; it is deposited there in the justice bank of God. We need only claim our "share" of that account's balance and present ourselves to God.

In summary, a perfectly just being, God the Father, requires that sin be punished. In the Old Testament, such punishments were the slaughter of an innocent animal, accompanied by prayers of adoration and contrition to God the Father. These lawful rituals drove home the point to mankind that there are consequences for bad behaviors. These lawful rituals also foreshadowed a more significant means of reconciliation before God the Father’s demand for justice. A perfect being, Christ, willingly went to His death. A perfectly just God the Father, knows that the Son’s death is not justice, for the Son was sinless. Therefore, the perfectly just God the Father credits anyone who will claim the Son’s death as payment for their sins.

As for the doctrine of hell consider the following:

1. Wouldn't everyone repent when faced with hell?
2. Would God let out people who repented?
3. Why was Hell created?

One argument against hell is this: No person in his right mind would choose eternal punishment in hell over heaven. Therefore everyone would repent when sent to hell. If God lets the repentant leave, hell will be empty (and therefore can be disregarded). If God doesn't let the repentant leave, God is unjust for continuing to punish them after they've repented.

The trouble with this line of reasoning is that repentance is not simply a matter of one saying, "Okay, I'll say whatever you want me to, just get me out of here!" Repentance involves acknowledging one's guilt, feeling remorse and the desire to change one's behavior, accepting Christ's sacrifice as substitutionary punishment for one's wrongs and agreeing to love and obey God (including Christ as God the Son). This includes by definition acceptance of eternal punishment in hell as just punishment for one's sins; while the skeptic may still object that continued punishment of the repentant is unjust, the repentant will respond that their continued punishment is deserved and could only end through God's mercy.

However, in reality people in hell won't repent, in particular not any skeptic who makes the above argument. If one thinks God is unjust for punishing people in hell, actually going there isn't going to make one suddenly decide that God is just and deserves one's love and worship after all. People are given their entire lives on Earth as an opportunity to repent and accept God; if they refuse each day of their lives to repent and believe they're justified in doing so, it's hardly conceivable that punishment in hell would change their minds.

Since hell is comprised of those who would never repent, the second question, “Would God let out people who repented?” is only a hypothetical one; it could be argued either way. In practice, someone who would repent in hell would be given the opportunity to repent on Earth and would presumably repent before they died, not after.

As for eternal punishment for finite life of sin, the answer is that our sin bears an eternal consequence because it is ultimately against an eternal God. When King David committed the sins of adultery and murder he stated, Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight (Psalm 51:4). David had sinned against Bathsheba and Uriah, how could David claim to have only sinned against God? David understood that all sin is ultimately against God. God is an eternal and infinite Being. As a result, all sin is worthy of an eternal punishment.

An earthly example of this would be comparing attacking your neighbor and attacking the President of the United States. Yes, both are crimes, but attacking the President would result in far greater consequences. How much more does sin against a holy and infinite God warrant a terrible consequence?

In short, hell and heaven were created out of God's love for mankind as a consequence of free will. God could not have created a morally free creature who could not possess the potentiality to choose to sin. God, being perfectly righteous will righteously respect the choices a person makes and grant them the eternal life they sought through the exercise of their own free will. In short, we choose the behavior, and thus we have chosen the consequences.

I have simplified much of the doctrines behind these concepts. I suggest you do some careful study of the attributes of God to digest these hard sayings. Start with some basic introductions to theology, especially the attributes of a perfect being (God) and go from there.

Answer 2

We are condemned because of the sinful nature inherited from Adam, not just because of the sins we commit. The only way to stop committing so many sins is if we are more constituted with Christ. As a Christian progresses in the Christian walk, he/she is more and more constituted with the elements of Christ, and would no longer commit so many sins. If a person merely asks for forgiveness and applies the blood of Christ, but does not actually repent (i.e. have a change of mind), that is not quite good enough. Even, it is not good enough to repent, but still have the old sinful nature of Adam within us. We need to have an inward change of being to stop sinning.

A person cannot go to hell if they have received Christ into them. If you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus Christ died for you and was raised from the dead, then you are saved from hell. There onwards, no matter how many sins you commit, you are still saved from hell. However, there is also a difference between a Christian who is matured and one who is not, by the time he/she died or is raptured. A Christian who is not matured will spend 1000 years in darkness (kind of a discipline or catch up time if you like), as opposed to the fully matured Christians who will be the bride of the Lamb (Christ). After the 1000 years, all the Christians will be the corporate wife of the Lamb.

Answer 3

It's very simple. There is no sin and there is no hell.

Sin and the threat of hell were created by human beings to control others. The idea of forgiveness of sin so you don't go to hell is a great way to bring people and money into your organization. The entire religion of Christianity is based on the ultimate fear of what might happen to you after death.

Believe in God - I do - but ignore the Bible and the teachings of the Christians, which are contradictory and impossible.

Answer 4

You are misunderstanding Sin.

The bible says the wages of sin is death. The death is a physical death. You chose to commit that sin, so the punishment that you are accepting is a physical. So, since everyone has sinned, we all have to die.

Now, as for the "hell" issue. If you haven't accepted Jesus as your savior and continue to live with your sinful ways then you will go to hell. Plain and simple.

But, if you accept Jesus as your savior and are trying to be Christ-like, then you are going to heaven. This doesn't mean you will stop sinning automatically. You are still prone to sin. The difference is that you are trying to break away from sinning.

I'm a Christian and I'll be the first one to tell you that I slip from time to time. But I ask for forgiveness and try to break those habits that trip me up.

I hope I helped to clear this up for you.

Answer 5

wrong the path to Hell is wide and many will find it while the path to Heaven is narrow and few will be able to enter the gates. We are all sinners but what keeps most people out of Heaven is their insistence that God does not exist and that Jesus was not the son of God and did not rise again.

I am a sinner and I am saved. That does not make me a hypocrite, it makes me honest with myself and God. Sin had seperated me from God but because I accept the gift of Grace from Jesus Christ when God looks at me he does not see a sinner, He sees the shed blood of Jesus Christ.

Answer 6

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 7

According to Christianity, sins can be forgiven, but that forgiveness must be asked for. If you go out and blow someone away, but are truly remorseful and accept Christ's sacrifice, your sins are forgiven. But if you blow someone away and either don't care or never ask for forgiveness, you are unforgiven and will wind up in hell. It's all in whether you ask for forgiveness (and truly mean it) or not.

Answer 8

NO, God does not forgive all sin. Only those who "repent" (big definition) and turn are forgiven.
Confession does not mean to "tell" someone you did wrong. It means to "agree" with God about what he says about you and do something about it.
"God forgives sins" is a myth.

Answer 9

Being a Christian does not mean that you will never sin, we still sin, but are forgiven.
We sin because we have a sin nature and have had such since the fall of Adam.
Christ Just accepted the responsibility for our sins and paid for them on the Cross, all we have to do is believe and accept His free Gift of Salvation.

Now when we do, and I mean really do and really believe, we are Changed, we no longer think the way we did.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12-2)

The Apostle Paul wrote that he fought the good fight he finished the race he kept the faith, he did not say he won it.

Christianity is not about being perfect, Christ won perfection for us on the Cross, Christinaity is about fighting the good fight, never giving up, we don't have to win the race or the fight, but we must show up for it and finish it.

Will we sin? yes, but a true Christian recognizes it makes no excuses for it, repents of it, and tries to never commit that same sin again.

Alas, there are many false Christians in Church who believe in the false message of Eternal security believeing that they have "Fire insurance" and think they can do anything they want and still go to heaven believing they have a Licsense to sin, this is a false theological message beleiving in a Monday thru Saturday Backsliding and Sunday Salvation.

Jesus spoke of these people in Matt 7:21

Mat 7:21 ¶ Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.


Mat 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?


Mat 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.


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Answer 10

You have to ask for forgiveness before you can be absolved of sin. But you also have to feel bad about the sin and promise not to do it again. If you keep doing it over and over then you weren't really sorry.

Answer 11

You are having a hard time because your understanding of sin and salvation and forgiveness of sin(s) is flawed.
There is also the unpardonable sin so all sins are not forgiven.