God said if I have faith in Him all my sins will be forgiven.
So doesn't the fact I continue to sin prove I have faith in His promise?
If I doubted him, and thought that some/all of my sins would not be forgiven (despite his promise), then I might try to avoid sinning.
But why avoid it when He has promised to forgive me for it?
Aren't those who are trying to avoid sin proving they have no faith in God's promise?
2007-07-03 04:07:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You must be a student of the great reformer Martin Luther. Here is a quote from him...
"God does not save people who are only fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly, for he is victorious over sin, death, and the world. As long as we are here [in this world] we have to sin."
2007-07-03 04:13:51 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. E 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you keep committing the same sins over an over again, doesen't it demonstrate plainly that you really didn't want forgiveness in the first place? God knows the intent in your heart, the idea of sinning is to learn from your mistakes and to be accountable to God for your sins. How does just sinning show accountability or remorse for the sin. Easy, it doesn't? Are these really the best questions you can come up with?
2007-07-03 11:14:57 · answer #2 · answered by Scott B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
God never said, sin all you want, I will forgive you every time, so just go ahead and do whatever you feel like. He said, if you repent, he will forgive you. To repent means to do all within your power to overcome your mistakes, and determine in your heart that you will never repeat them again, then … peace of conscience can come to you by which you will know that your sins have been forgiven. If you know you are going to repeat the sin continually throughout your life, you are not really repenting, and you are not going to get forgiveness, and you will have no peace in your soul.
I believe he will forgive me, but because I also believe he loves me, I don't want to hurt him or be ungrateful for the promise.
A new commandment was to love one another as Jesus loves you. If you sin, you don't even love yourself. You are not trying to progress past the point of being concerned only for your own pleasure. There is no joy in sinning. Your guilty conscience is telling you something.
2007-07-03 11:11:40 · answer #3 · answered by Sweet n Sour 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,
It proves you still need that Sacrament of Redemption, just like the rest of us.
Christians avoid sin because we realize that sin will not bring us true happiness and out of love of God.
That does not mean that we are never going to sin, we are still human.
Good Luck!
2007-07-03 11:25:01 · answer #4 · answered by C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Making excuse for being a bad person?
Maybe some sins cannot be forgiven......
7 Deadly sins
10 Commandments
2007-07-03 11:19:51 · answer #5 · answered by waspsnest 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
That is very backward logic. You don't sin because God doesn't want you to. If you slip up, He will forgive. But we aren't supposed to sin on purpose.
2007-07-03 11:11:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
you are making a fool of god.
because god does not want to have you back to heaven by all means. but he wants to stop this sinning business here on earth. it is a clear offense to continue sinning in trust of the word of god.
if you do sin conciously, forgiveness will not work. and you will go to hell instead. simple.
2007-07-03 11:16:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer? Or don't you know that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him through baptism to death, that just like Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life."
2007-07-03 11:28:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ten commandments say, "Thou shalt not kill," but are you willing to kill yourself to test your theory? How, about, just cut yourself up, since the Bible says don't do that? You've got a little child on your lap. Want to do some experiments there, to practice your theory?
2007-07-03 11:11:10 · answer #9 · answered by shirleykins 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Should your children continue to disobey you to prove that you still love them?
But then again what kind of parent tests their children like god does and then rejects them when they fail?
2007-07-03 11:11:35 · answer #10 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋