is sin irrelevant - please read all details?

Question

yes or no and why

the reason i ask this is because sinning is something that you're not supposed to do. BUT if you love god, your sins will be forgiven if you ask for forgiveness. therefore that renders sin pointless!!!

agree or disagree?

Answer 1

Well, ready for this one? lol

I do believe in knowing right from wrong...but it was explained to me that the term "sin" comes from an old archery term. Literally it means " to fall short, to miss the mark"
Now, as mere humans, none of us will ever be able to come close to being perfect (god like) however, the purpose in life is to strive for perfection, is it not?
So basically, we all "sin" , we all "fall short" of being perfect.

Is sin irrelevant? Perhaps in a religious format it may be. However coming from a spiritual point of view, it is not. The point is, when we do "fall short" then we learn from that experience, so perhaps when in a similar position again, our reactions will be different....we use our failures as a stepping stone to progress. Because we strive for progress, not perfection.
Make any sense to anybody else besides me?

Answer 2

God will probably forgive you in so far as your sincerity is true and you do understand now what it was you did that made you feel you had sinned. Perhaps from His perspective what you did was no sin just a confused child lost in his or her ways and in need of some re-orienting. And it looks as if you don't quite have the understanding of sin. What is pointless is to think that whatever you do will affect Him in some way. A sin is in the end just something you do to yourself that sets you back and denies you the happiness you deserve and is your own free will determination and ignorance that got you there. And He will probably tell you that you have been forgiven a long time, now it is time for you to forgive yourself.

Answer 3

No. Sins are not forgiven based upon merely asking. There is repentance which means turning your life and your own way of thinking around. Far more than just asking forgiveness. There is also consequences of sin and being forgiven doesn't get you out of paying the price.

Sin is really disobedience to God which takes us out of the right relationship with Him. Planning on disobeying God and then asking forgiveness is really trying to manipulate God and that is not love at all.

Answer 4

No,
Sin is what brought the terrible conditions on earth.

Also, you seem to hold to the protestant view that no matter what you do, ask for forgiveness and you shall receive.

Depending on the severity of the sin,---- retribution, counseling, apology's, remorse, a promise not the commit the sin again may also be needed in the forgiveness factor.

Example:
You just committed adultery.
Ok, you ask for forgiveness and are indeed, sorry for what you have done.
Forgiveness granted, but God continues to watch.
You cover up, or lie to you spouse about your adultery, fearing divorce.
You just lost your forgiveness, and in time, God will act in behalf of the trespassed spouse.

Answer 5

The Holy ten commandments are a mirror to show us what sin is in our life.
Some say the Law was done away with at the cross and we are no longer under law but under grace.
The law done away with at the cross was the law of ordinances, we no longer have to kill a lamb for our sin to be forgiven because the true Lamb of God, Jesus is now our sacrifice.
If you take away the ten commandments you have nothing to tell us what sin is. Sin is a transgression of the Law (NT) Paul said "for I would not have known sin but for the law".
We as Christians are to walk as Jesus walked and He did no sin. So we also need the Law to tell us what sin is.
Paul, when he was in Rome towards the end of his life, said "that he did nothing against the law or the prophets" this means that he kept the Sabbath according to the Law. The forth commandment, so the Law can not be done away with.
We are saved by grace not by keeping the law, but we keep the law to show our love and loyalty to God, because his grace saves us. To do otherwise would be to kick sand in Jesus face, so to speak.
The only difference between the OT commandments and the commandments today is where they are written, then on stone, now on your heart.

Answer 6

It seems that you are confusing the forgiveness of sins with the effects of sin in the world. The forgiveness of sins is a act of grace, by which God in his compassion pardons us for what we have done and what we have failed to do. This pardon is wholly undeserved, and therefore the proper response is gratitude, not presumption.

Sin remains relevant inasmuch as it conditions our existence and has a startling impact on the world. This is why the proclamation of the Christians Gospel is not just about how God is willing to forgive our sins, but also the way of life that is meant to be engendered by our acceptance of God's forgiveness.

Answer 7

Jesus died to render sin harmless, but your word "pointless" throws me a little. Maybe you are asking if it is pointless to worry about avoiding sin.

First, let's define sin. Sin is an act that separates you from God. When you are separated from God you die because you do not have the power to keep yourself alive.

Adam's sin was this: He was fooled into believing that eating the fruit would make him like God. This meant he wanted to be God over his own life, not under God's authority. His wish was instantly granted and at once he was in charge of trying to keep himself alive. He couldn't do it, so he immediately started to grow old and die.

Jesus brought us back from that decision. You can only be separated from God again by making that same decision yourself: To be God over your own life. That is the "sin that leads to death".

All other sin is not "irrelevant" as you put it, but, it won't cost you your salvation. You will have to answer for it in a different way though. There are two different judgements after death: One for the unbeliever and a different one for us. All unbelievers will be judged for having committed that first sin and cast into the lake of fire. Believers will not be judged for salvation. There will be a 2nd judgement for us to judge what we have done with our salvation walk. We will get "crowns" for our eternal works. We will not suffer a punishment for all of our mispent time, except for a lack of promotion.

So, yes, that may seem nothing to worry about.
Paul had to answer your question when he told everyone that they were now free from the law of sin and death. Even he had to stop and say, "so what then, should we sin all the more so grace can abound even more?" But, when we get before God there will still be a lot of remorse for how we treated Him when we come face to face with all His grace.

So, don't kid yourself. When you stand alone with God and review your life, you would want to throw yourself into that lake of fire if it were not for His grace.

On a personal note, I believe that every sin that we confront ourselves with while we are still alive, will have already been confronted in heaven, and we won't feel the shame of. Every repented sin will be forgotten and thrown into that "lake of forgetfulness". So, don't be casual about sin just because grace has you covered.

Answer 8

Man's terrible condition in sin would be hopeless were it not for the great love God has for him. It was, therefore, sure that the love of God should make a plan to deliver man from the bondage, power, guilt, and results of sin, turning him from the way of eternal destruction to the way of eternal life. This plan is the gospel.
"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of
God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the
Jew, then for the Gentile" (Romans 1:16).

For if you believe that your sin was redemmed through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, you should avoid sinning. God ransom for our sin is very expensive. The life of his only son Jesus.

If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left, but only a fearful expectation of judgment and of raging fire that will consume the enemies of God. (Hebrew 10;26-27)

Answer 9

First, there was no sin. Then Adam and Eve sinned. God tried to get his people to obey the Ten Commandments, but being human, they couldn't. That's when God sent His Son to die for our sins, once and for all. Our responsibility is to try not to sin, but if we do, to ask forgiveness in Jesus' name.
We all sin. That's a given. You can't be of the mind that you'll just kill a bunch of people and then ask forgiveness. You must also repent, which means you'll do your best not to sin again.

Answer 10

The concept of "SIN" is manmade and it's a bunch of crap.

Religion controls the drooling faithful through GUILT and they do that by telling people how they are "SINFUL"... It's all nonsense, but the gullible swallow it up like a man dying of thirst would drink water.

Religion has only ONE product... and that is to self perpetuate itself. Religion is full of empty promises, half truths and obfuscation and the gullible eat it up... Religion preys on the weak and the weak minded... if offers false hope to people who are hopeless.

Personally, I would rather have a brain and no religion than to have a religion and no brain...

AND I DON'T WORRY ABOUT BEING A SINNER... because I am not so simple minded that I let the preachers control my mind.