Does God forgive us if we ask Him too or do we have to earn forgiveness with good works?

Answer 1

We only love God because he first loved us. To say we love God on our own accord is a lie. His love was showed to us when we were yet still sinners - Christ died for us. His love initiated - He opens the eyes of the blind and we can only see because of Him. Over and over through the bible we find that God finds us - we don't find Him - we don't have the capability of finding Him. So, we accept his gift of forgiveness and salvation by faith. For it is by faith we are saved - not of works (penance for example) LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST.

God does it all - we believe. Even our faith is a gift from God. Give Him all the Glory!

Answer 2

Grace is a free gift from God. Religions like catholicism or mormonism that teach works-righteousness are misleading people. All that is required to be forgiven is repentance (sincerely admit your sins, undertake not to do them anymore) and faith in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died to pay the penalty for your sins on your behalf. Do that and mean it, and God will give you a new heart with new desires so you will not want to sin against Him any more. That is what it is to be born again.

EDIT: the above answer is correct... good works are a sign of true salvation, but good works can never earn you salvation.

Answer 3

Funstuff, pray to God and ask him for mercy on you as a sinner, and he will forgive you. Obviously, if you mean the prayer, it will bear fruit and you won't an evil person. We all make mistakes, even after salvation. However, we don't need to be perfect to come to God. God takes us for the sinners we are! A true act of mercy!

Answer 4

When you ask for God's forgiveness with a sincere heart, He will forgive you.

Answer 5

Works are evidence of salvation and in no way can they add to the finished work of Jesus on the cross.

Ephesians 2:4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved-- 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, 9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Answer 6

You have to ask God for forgiveness.
You can build a church and he still does forgive you.
You have to come forward to him and ask him personally for forgive and you have to mean it.

Answer 7

well God freely forgives if we're truly repenant & don't keep repeating
(Hebrews 10:26) . . .For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left. . .

but you have to remember being a christian is more then making a claim, I could claim to be a DR. does that make me one?

(James 2:14-17) 14 Of what benefit is it, my brothers, if a certain one says he has faith but he does not have works? That faith cannot save him, can it? 15 If a brother or a sister is in a naked state and lacking the food sufficient for the day, 16 yet a certain one of YOU says to them: “Go in peace, keep warm and well fed,” but YOU do not give them the necessities for [their] body, of what benefit is it? 17 Thus, too, faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself.

(1 Peter 2:21) 21 In fact, to this [course] YOU were called, because even Christ suffered for YOU, leaving YOU a model for YOU to follow his steps closely.

(1 Corinthians 11:1) 11 Become imitators of me, even as I am of Christ.

(Hebrews 10:26) . . .For if we practice sin willfully after having received the accurate knowledge of the truth, there is no longer any sacrifice for sins left. . .


You can't just join real christianity, you have to BECOME A CHRISTIAN that means a change of life style
(Romans 12:1-2) . . .Consequently I entreat YOU by the compassions of God, brothers, to present YOUR bodies a sacrifice living, holy, acceptable to God, a sacred service with YOUR power of reason. 2 And quit being fashioned after this system of things, but be transformed by making YOUR mind over, that YOU may prove to yourselves the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

God is not under any obligation to accept just anyone, only those who meet his aproval
(Matthew 7:21-23) 21 “Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. 22 Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ 23 And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew YOU! Get away from me, YOU workers of lawlessness.

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Answer 8

HONESTY with ourselves requires us to admit that we are sinners, that we commit sins, that we make mistakes, that we often miss the mark. As a Hebrew poet or psalmist of old once expressed it: “We have sinned just the same as our forefathers.” To which the Christian apostle Paul adds his testimony: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”—Ps. 106:6; Rom. 3:23.

The fact that we are sinners should and does give us concern. Why? Because it plagues us with a guilty conscience, and what is more, sin makes men the enemies of God, even as it did our first parents, bringing forth God’s displeasure, which resulted in death to them and to their offspring: “That is why, just as through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men because they had all sinned.” Yes, “the wages sin pays is death.”—Rom. 5:12; 6:23.

Lovingly Jehovah God has provided a means by which we can become his friends, by having our sins forgiven us. Thus we are told: “When we were enemies, we became reconciled to God through the death of his Son.” (Rom. 5:10) However, this reconciliation does not come automatically to us. It comes only to those who exercise faith: “He that exercises faith in the Son has everlasting life.”—John 3:36.

What does it mean to “exercise faith”? It means more than simply saying “I believe.” It means doing something about it; it means becoming active, for “faith without works is dead,” it being alone. (Jas. 2:26) As the apostle Peter exhorted the conscience-stricken Jews who had been involved in the death of the Son of God: “Repent,” feel truly sorry for your sins, “and turn around so as to get your sins blotted out.” To turn around means to change the direction in which one is going—in this instance, from following a course of selfishness and sin to following a course of righteousness. While we cannot do so perfectly, yet we can and must oppose sinful tendencies in our flesh and keep striving to do better. “Do not let sin continue to rule as king in your mortal bodies that you should obey their desires.”—Acts 3:19; Rom. 6:12.

By pleading for forgiveness on the basis of Christ’s sacrifice we can have freedom from a consciousness of guilt, even as we read: “If anyone does commit a sin, we have a helper with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one. And he is a propitiatory sacrifice for our sins, yet not for ours only but also for the whole world’s.” But we must follow a consistent course of action: “If we are walking in the light as he himself is in the light, . . . the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us.”—1 John 2:1, 2; 1:7.

Answer 9

The only thing thing cannot be forgiven is not believing that Jesus died for our sins. There are no works required to be forgiven.