If Jesus saved you from your sins, how come you're still sinning?

Answer 1

Cause they think being saved from their sins means they can sin without penalty. They are not saved FROM their sins; they are saved TO sin. It's a special agreement between Jesus and his half-cousin Satan.

Answer 2

The Bible teaches that Jesus will save a person from the penalty of sin, not from sinning. We, Christians, continue to sin because we are people like everyone else.

The Bible also teaches that we are given a new, sinless nature, but too often we fail God and give in to the old, sinfull nature.

We learn from the further study of the Bible that when we sin, our relationship with God is damaged. We do not loose our salvation - we still belong to God, but we cannot "fellowship" with him. The communication between us and God is broken. In 1 John 1:9, however, we are told that to re-establish the lines of communication, we must go to Him and tell him about our sin. We must acknowledge what we have done. Then, and only then, will he forgive us and cleanse us from that sin.

It is often thought that this gives us a license to sin. What people fail to understand is that, although we are not lost, we will loose rewards. Christians are rewarded for the good they do and rewards are taken away when we do wrong. We do not have a license to sin. If our sin doesn't catch up with us here on earth, it will catch up with us when we stand before God and are required to give an account of all that we did.

Answer 3

Salvation occurs in three tenses.
There is the past tense: I have been saved from sin. The present tense is: I am being saved from sin. The third tense is future: I shall be saved from sin. Let me elaborate.

In the past tense, we have been saved. Christ bore a judgment death for us. When we believe on Him, we pass from death to life, and we are no longer under condemnation -- "There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus . . ." (Rom. 8:1).

We are also being saved. He is working out a salvation in us, and we won't even have that perfected in this life.

But as we look into the future we know a day is coming when ". . . it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him . . ." (1John 3:2).

Answer 4

we are all imperfect compared to jesus. jesus was a man who never sinned in order for his people to be free of sin he died for everyone's sins. We will sin everyday no matter what there is just no preventing it, but we should strive each and every day to do better in our lives and to be better to others.

Answer 5

We're not suppose to continue sinning after giving our life over to Him. But, we are a carnial and we do sin. We ask God to forgive us and then we try hard not to repeat the sin.

God Bless You

Answer 6

Do you have any idea how far from imperfection we are? We are all imperfect humans..Jesus had enough love for us to die a horrible, painful death so that our sins could be forgiven..That doesn't mean we can or should go around purposely sinning..but we are human..and about as far from imperfect as we can get.

Answer 7

because we are fallen people. "All have fallen short of His glory" "There is none that is good, not even one". Jesus died for my sins, past, present, and future. I will continue to sin but when your not a Christian you run to sin, When you become a Christian you run from it.

Answer 8

Jesus died for the sins of humanity, past ,present ,and future. God bless.

Answer 9

If Bill Clinton pardons one of his friends. His friend is free from the charge being on his record. It doesnt necessarilty mean the guy wont ever commit a crime again. Get it? And you'd have great admiration for Clinton for pardoning you. It's a similar deal in the spiritual realm.

Answer 10

Because we are still human...thus have a sinful nature. Sometimes even us old Christians do not turn away from tempation...but we do try.