Is forgiveness given only once or given repeatedly?

Question

My brother encoutered this problem. The Christian Bible (from the Letter of Paul to the Phillipines) states that "Jesus cannot be crucified twice...does that mean that forgiveness is a "one shot" deal?
Baptists and Catholics would say differently...forgiveness is an ongoing process. But "hard-nosed" Christians would say washing yourself from sin is your complete forgiveness that is the only chance you get. What do you all think?

Answer 1

Your question goes to the nature of God. Since He knows the end from the beginning He therefore knows all the sin you would ever commit. All that sin was paid for on the cross the day the Lord of lifted on on it. So your answer is YES it was a one time shot for your sin, all your sin every sin you would ever commit. Jim

Answer 2

Many people think that when Jesus died that forgives your sins. But the case actually is....He died so you you COULD be forgiven. How can you be forgiven if you don't repent?
That's the reason Jesus came preaching "Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand."
You're not forgiven unless you ask for forgiveness. But when you do ask with a sincere heart and the true intent and desire to turn completely away from whatever wrong you've done..the Lord will forgive you of course. And it is also mandatory for you to forgive people who have offended you. That's how seriously He takes forgiveness. You won't be forgiven by Him unless you forgive your brethren first. But He will forgive you countless times.....His point is for you to not be hardened in heart. Because Love doesn't keep a record of "past wrongs."

Psalms 130:3-4(AMP)
3 If You, Lord, should keep account of and treat [us according to our] sins, O Lord, who could stand?
4 But there is forgiveness with You [just what man needs], that You may be reverently feared and worshiped.

and...in a different version....

Psalm 130:3-4 (NIV)
3 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness;
therefore you are feared.

Answer 3

No contradiction, they're 2 different things. It's the difference between justifying grace, which is the one time you accepted salvation, and sanctifying grace, which is the life-long process of trying to reflect God better. Show me a person who doesn't sin every day, I'll show you a liar. Christ came to pay once for all the sins of the world, but that doesn't give us carte blanche to f-up every day and say, "oh well, I'm forgiven anyway." So the redemption of the world was a one-shot deal, but keeping ourselves right with God and our neighbors is an every-day all-day deal.

Answer 4

Forgiveness is a one shot deal, yes.
Accountability is a different story however.
You must acknowledge your sin to God in Jesus name
1 John 1:9.

But you are already forgiven on the cross.

Answer 5

Both ,One a person becomes born again John 3:3 , your past ,present , and future sins are wiped clean off of your tally slate of sins . You can't then go out and kill some one and say " Hey , I'm forgiven ". You must try to be a light in this dark and evil world and Ask Jesus to forgive you of your daily trespasses against him .1 John 1:9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness ". Confess to God NOT to man .

Answer 6

I am a Christian and I sin daily, as do all human's it is the one thing that is faulty in our hard wireing. For that I ask for forgiveness every day. Not for a sin I committed yesterday or 20 years ago but for the new ones, I thank God ahead of time for forgiving of me sins of tomorrow. Anyway, for those that would say just stop sinning, I say to them just stop breathing.

Answer 7

Baptism, in which our sins are washed away, can only be received once. To take care of sins after that, Jesus Christ instituted the Sacrament of Reconciliation (John 20:21-23).

Jesus does not need to be sacrificed over and over because His self sacrifice was the perfect sacrifice.

Answer 8

It depends on what is being forgiven. On one hand you have the forgiveness for the eternal consequences of sin and on the other you have the forgiveness for mistakes. Through grace, every one of us can have forgiveness for the eternal consequences of sin. This is a "one-shot" deal...every one of us has already been forgiven for EVERY sin by the grace of God through Jesus...we have to accept that forgiveness in order to recognize it after we die, but no other actions are required. At the same time, we all continue to sin and that sin has earthly consequences that require ongoing forgiveness from God, from other people, and also from ourselves. Jesus said that we needed to forgive other people repeatedly...he wasn't talking about forgiving them for the eternal consequences...that was his job. Instead, it suggests that forgiveness for earthly consequences also has value...I think that means also means that we need to repeatedly seek forgiveness (from God, from others, and from ourselves) for our earthly mistakes!

Answer 9

Salvation is obtained through Jesus Christ and that is truth, forgiveness of sins must be asked for repeatedly for we are sinful and we must acknowledge that sinfulness to be relieved of it, forgiven also in the words of Jesus "seven time seven times". It isn't biblical that once you accept Jesus Christ there is no need of forgiveness, because He also stated "I will come to judge the living and the dead", not I will come to see if you believe in me or not.
You must believe with all your heart, soul and mind that through Him is our salvation, but we must ask His forgiveness for our trangressions, as in His teaching on prayer.
God bless you and have a great day.

Answer 10

Judicially, we are forgiven once and it is a done deal. The book of Romans and Hebrew are written with many legal terms in them, binding contracts.

For conscience sake, for dealings with our soul, we often need the cleansing of Jesus "because if we say we have no sin, the truth is not within us." I call this the experiential aspect of forgiveness, the ongoing work of sanctification.