I You forgive yourself, will God Forgive you?

Question

My answer to this question is:
Forgivness is Non Judgment. Judge not, less you be Judged. Forgiving yourself is a many life time project.
Now I want to see how you see it …Mawdy

The first word on my question is supuposed to be If

Answer 1

It's the other way around, when you genuinely ask God to forgive you of your sins He does. Then it is up to you to know you are forgiven and forgive yourself.

Kim

Answer 2

Grace unto you, and peace,
from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Perhaps the whole concept of imputng sin and forgiveness for such should be reviewed by many. The only way any can truly forgive self or others is to abolish law, which imputes sin, which has a death sting, which law is both the root source and the strength(strong man) of. So God hath forgiven you for Christ's sake, in Ephesians 4, is notably connected to Christ: is the end of the law: Romans 10:4.

Charity never faileth is notably above forgiving one another, because it thinketh no evil, which is to say pure grace thinketh no law, thereby no sin, thereby no death.

Not to mention the Lord's Prayer is leavened with law, a forgive us as we forgive condition, and a PS which notes if you don't forgive all men all trespasses all the time, neither will you get forgiven; which is like a catch 22, a trap to avoid.

Not to mention blasphemy the Ghost is unforgivable, both in this world and the to come; And everyone has somehow spoken against the Ghost(Law), if only to say it's not fair as a child... leaving you unforgiven till you flush the law as dung.

The GRACE of our Lord Jesus Christ with you all. Amen.

Answer 3

Forgiveness doesn't have to do with judging the actions of a person. For instance if someone steals from you according to God's Word their action was wrong and deserving of punishment.

Forgiveness means that you choose not to punish the other person by holding a grudge against them which often times only punishes the person who is holding the grudge and not the offender.

As to forgiving your self, it's similar in that you can acknowledge that you have done wrong things in the past and determine not to do them again and realize that God has already punished your wrong doing when Jesus became sin for you on the cross. Then since you have repented of whatever behavior you did in the past and since God loves you and has forgiven you, you can see your self through God's eyes as a tender lamb who has gone astray but now is back in the fold where there is no condemnation.

Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 8:33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died--more than that, who was raised--who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Answer 4

Our own ability to forgive ourselves is not the measure that we were taught by Jesus. Jesus Christ taught us to pray, "Forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sin against us."

Forgiveness is from God. God's measure of forgiveness is beyond our own abilities, but God does expect us to practice the forgiveness of those who have offended us. If we can forgive others. then that would be our best assurance that God has also forgiven us.

So however comforting it is to forgive ourselves, the better measure is our ability to forgive others.

Answer 5

God truly is the only one who can judge, and upon request will and does forgive us for our sins.